The Middle Ages
The works listed here are provided in case you wish to do further reading. Nothing here is required for the course.
General References
Church and Religion
- Chadwick, H. The Early Church, 1967.
- Knowles, David, Christian Monasticism, 1969.
- Leclercq, J., F. Vandenbroucke, and L. Bouyer, The Spirituality of the Middle Ages, 1968.
- Le Goff, J. The Birth of Purgatory, trans. By A. Goldhammer, 1984.
- McManners, J., ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity, 1990.
- Herrin, J. The Formation of Christendom, 1987.
- Tellenbach, Gerd, The Church in Western Europe from the Tenth to the Early Twelfth Century, T. Reuter, trans., 1993.
- Brooke, R. and C. Brooke, Popular Religion in the Middle Ages, 1984.
- Brooke, C., The Monastic World, 1974.
- Oakley, F., The Western Church in the Later Middle Ages, 1979.
- Swanson, R.N., Church and Society in Late Medieval England, 1989.
Early Middle Ages
- Barraclough, Geoffrey, The Crucible of Europe: The Ninth and Tenth Centuries, 1976.
- Munz, P. The Age of Charlemagne, 1971.
- McKitterick, R., The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians, 751-987, 1983.
Social History
- Herlihy, David, Medieval Households, 1985.
- Wemple, S.F., Women in Frankish Society: Marriage and the Cloister, 500-900, 1981.
- Duby, G., Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West, 1968.
- Hanawalt, Barbara, Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History, 1993.
- Barber, R., The Knight and Chivalry, 1982.
- Keen, Maurice, Chivalry, 1984.
- Dyer, C. Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages, 1989.
- Nicholas, D. The Domestic Life of a Medieval City: Women, Children, and the Family in Fourteenth-Century Ghent, 1985.
- Robertson, Jr., D.W., Chaucer's London, 1968.
- Ziegler, Philip, The Black Death, 1969.
- Koch, H.W., Medieval Warfare, 1978.
National Histories
- Mango, C. Byzantium: The Empire of New Rome, 1980.
- Leyser, K., Medieval Germany and Its Neighbors, 900-1250, 1982.
- Fletcher, R., Moorish Spain, 1992.
- Nicholas, D., Medieval Flanders, 1992.
- Hallam, Elizabeth, The Capetian Kings of France, 987-1328, 1980.
- Havercamp, A. Medieval Germany 1056-1273, 1992.
- Ormrod, W.M., The Reign of Edward III. Crown and Political Society in England, 1327-1377. 1990
- Perroy, E., The Hundred Years' War, 1959.
- Allmand, C. The Hundred Years' War: England and France at War, c. 1300--c. 1450, 1988.
Surveys
- Mayer, H.E., The Crusades, trans. By John Gillingham, 1972.
- Holmes, G., ed., The Oxford History of Medieval Europe, 1992.
Miscellaneous
- Bartlett, R., Trial by Fire and Water: The Medieval Judicial Ordeal, 1986.
- Bartlett, R., The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350, 1993.
- Nicholas, D. The Evolution of the Medieval World, 1992.
- Strayer, J.R., On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State, 1970.
The Later Middle Ages
- Bainton, R.H. Erasmus of Christendom, 1960.
- Berenson, B. Italian Painters of the Renaissance. 1957.
- Brucker, G.A. Renaissance Florence, 1969.
- Brucker, G.A. Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence, 1986.
- Ferguson, W.K. Europe in Transition, 1300-1520, 1962.
- Jensen, D.L. Renaissance Europe: Age of Recovery and Reconciliation, 1981.