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Un livre exceptionnel. Voici la réponse apportée par l’élite des jeunes générations de médiévistes français (avec l’aide de quelques illustres anciens) à ce que l’on appelle aujourd’hui la « World History ». En déplaçant le regard à l’échelle mondiale, il devient possible de briser notre manière de voir l’histoire toute centrée sur l’Europe. N’est-il pas absurde de parler de « découverte » de l’Amérique ? Or, dans les années 1400, au cœur du XVe siècle, les hommes ont vécu une première mondialisation, et cette expérience inédite constitue le chantier immense de cet ouvrage.Le premier volume retrace examine successivement les structures politiques de l’ensemble des terres occupées sur la planète et les écrits de tout genre qui ont marqué cette époque.Le deuxième volume esquisse ensuite un récit planétaire de l’histoire des hommes. Enfin – et enfin seulement – peut être tenté un essai d’« histoire » globale.

Fifteenth century --- Renaissance --- Civilization, Medieval --- World history

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Civilization, Medieval. --- Civilisation médiévale --- Egypt --- Egypte --- History --- Histoire --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilisation médiévale

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Written communication --- Civilization, Medieval --- History --- Congresses --- Congresses. --- Written communication - History - Congresses --- Civilization, Medieval - 13th century - Congresses --- Civilization, Medieval - 14th century - Congresses

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A fully updated second edition of J. A. Burrow's hugely successful introduction to medieval English literature. - ;In an updated edition of his hugely successful student introduction to English literature from 1100 to 1500, J. A. Burrow takes account of scholarly developments in the field, most notably devoting a final chapter to the impact of historicism on medieval studies. Full of information and stimulating ideas, and a pleasure to read, Burrow's book deals with circumstances of composition and reception, the main genres, 'modes of meaning' (allegory etc.), and medieval literature's afterlife in modern times. It shows that the literature of authors such as Chaucer, Gower, and Langland is more readily accessible than usually imagined, and well worth reading too. By placing medieval writers in their historical context - the four centuries between the Norman Conquest and the Renaissance - Professor Burrow explains not only how they wrote, but why.

English literature --- Civilization, Medieval, in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism

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Christopher Loveluck's study explores the transformation of Northwest Europe (primarily Britain, France and Belgium) from the era of the first post-Roman 'European Union' under the Carolingian Frankish kings to the so-called 'feudal' age, between c. AD 600 and 1150. During these centuries radical changes occurred in the organisation of the rural world. Towns and complex communities of artisans and merchant-traders emerged and networks of contact between northern Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle and Far East were redefined, with long-lasting consequences into the present day. Loveluck provides the most comprehensive comparative analysis of the rural and urban archaeological remains in this area for twenty-five years. Supported by evidence from architecture, relics, manuscript illuminations and texts, this book explains how the power and intentions of elites were confronted by the aspirations and actions of the diverse rural peasantry, artisans and merchants, producing both intended and unforeseen social changes.

Social history --- Social change --- Social archaeology --- Civilization, Medieval. --- History --- Europe --- Social conditions --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- Archaeology --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social evolution --- Methodology --- Arts and Humanities