The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization, and Cultural Change, 950-1350
From our twentieth-century perspective, we tend to think of the Europe of the past as a colonizer, a series of empires that conquered lands beyond their borders and forced European cultural values on other peoples. This provocative book shows that Europe in the Middle Ages was as much a product of a process of conquest and colonization as it was later a colonizer.\ \ \ This provocative book shows that Europe in the Middle Ages was as much a product of a process of...
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From our twentieth-century perspective, we tend to think of the Europe of the past as a colonizer, a series of empires that conquered lands beyond their borders and forced European cultural values on other peoples. This provocative book shows that Europe in the Middle Ages was as much a product of a process of conquest and colonization as it was later a colonizer. Journal of Interdisciplinary History . . . a useful and illuminating book, marked by breadth of outlook, impressive erudition, and a convincing discussion of the principal forces contributing to the "making of Europe" between the tenth and the fourteenth centuries.
List of Maps, Figures and TablesList of PlatesAcknowledgementsA Note on ReferencesIntroduction11The Expansion of Latin Christendom52The Aristocratic Diaspora243Military Technology and Political Power604The Image of the Conqueror855The Free Village1066The New Landscape1337Colonial Towns and Colonial Traders1678Race Relations on the Frontiers of Latin Europe (1): Language and Law1979Race Relations on the Frontiers of Latin Europe (2): Power and Blood22110The Roman Church and the Christian People24311The Europeanization of Europe26912The Political Sociology of Europe after the Expansion292List of Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography315Notes317Bibliography of Works Cited385Index417
\ GuardianEssential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the problems of Europe today.\ — Keith Thomas\ \ \ \ \ Journal of Interdisciplinary History. . . a useful and illuminating book, marked by breadth of outlook, impressive erudition, and a convincing discussion of the principal forces contributing to the "making of Europe" between the tenth and the fourteenth centuries.\ \ \ The New York Review of BooksThe most stimulating and well-written reassessment of medieval Europe that has appeared for many years.\ — Eric Christiansen\ \ \ \ \ The Times Literary SupplementBartlett amasses a wealth of documentation and, unlike other authors, he weaves a rich tapestry of colourful incidents, personalities, and contemporary comment.... A masterful survey of the forces that shaped the West.\ — Theodore K. Rabb\ \ \ \ \ The New LeaderAn absolutely first-rate book.... Bartlett has elucidated the making not only of Europe but of our own country and of the modern world as a whole.\ — Roger Draper\ \ \ \ \ History: Reviews of New BooksThe Making of Europe is an important book. . . . This excellent discussion of medieval colonial expansion is much overdue. . . . [It] goes a long way toward understanding what is meant by the European mindset and sheds some light on why this mindset spread into the far corners of the globe.\ — Madelyn B. Dick\ \ \ \ \ History: Reviews of New Books\ The Making of Europe is an important book. . . . This excellent discussion of medieval colonial expansion is much overdue. . . . [It] goes a long way toward understanding what is meant by the European mindset and sheds some light on why this mindset spread into the far corners of the globe.\ — Madelyn B. Dick\ \ \ \ \ The New York Review of BooksThe most stimulating and well-written reassessment of medieval Europe that has appeared for many years.\ \ \ \ \ The Times Literary SupplementBartlett amasses a wealth of documentation and, unlike other authors, he weaves a rich tapestry of colourful incidents, personalities, and contemporary comment.... A masterful survey of the forces that shaped the West.\ \ \ \ \ The New LeaderAn absolutely first-rate book.... Bartlett has elucidated the making not only of Europe but of our own country and of the modern world as a whole.\ \ \ \ \ GuardianEssential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the problems of Europe today.\ \ \ \ \ History: Reviews of New BooksThe Making of Europe is an important book. . . . This excellent discussion of medieval colonial expansion is much overdue. . . . [It] goes a long way toward understanding what is meant by the European mindset and sheds some light on why this mindset spread into the far corners of the globe.\ \ \ \ \ History: Reviews of New BooksThe Making of Europe is an important book. . . . This excellent discussion of medieval colonial expansion is much overdue. . . . [It] goes a long way toward understanding what is meant by the European mindset and sheds some light on why this mindset spread into the far corners of the globe.\ — Madelyn B. Dick\ \ \ \ \ Journal of Interdisciplinary History. . . a useful and illuminating book, marked by breadth of outlook, impressive erudition, and a convincing discussion of the principal forces contributing to the "making of Europe" between the tenth and the fourteenth centuries.\ \
