The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization, and Cultural Change, 950-1350 / Edition 1

by Robert Bartlett

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691037806
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	09/12/1994
Edition description:	1st Princeton Paperback
Pages:	456
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robert Bartlett is Professor of Medieval History at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He is the author of Gerald of Wales, 1146-1223 and Trial by Fire and Water.

Table of Contents

List of Maps, Figures and Tables
List of Plates
Acknowledgements
A Note on References
Introduction	1
1	The Expansion of Latin Christendom	5
2	The Aristocratic Diaspora	24
3	Military Technology and Political Power	60
4	The Image of the Conqueror	85
5	The Free Village	106
6	The New Landscape	133
7	Colonial Towns and Colonial Traders	167
8	Race Relations on the Frontiers of Latin Europe (1): Language and Law	197
9	Race Relations on the Frontiers of Latin Europe (2): Power and Blood	221
10	The Roman Church and the Christian People	243
11	The Europeanization of Europe	269
12	The Political Sociology of Europe after the Expansion	292
List of Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography	315
Notes	317
Bibliography of Works Cited	385
Index	417

Editorial Reviews

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

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.

History: Reviews of New Books - Madelyn B. Dick

Essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the problems of Europe today.

Guardian - Keith Thomas

An 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.

The New Leader - Roger Draper

Bartlett 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 Times Literary Supplement - Theodore K. Rabb

The most stimulating and well-written reassessment of medieval Europe that has appeared for many years.

The New York Review of Books - Eric Christiansen

Essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the problems of Europe today.
— Keith Thomas

Guardian

An 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

The New Leader

Bartlett 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 Times Literary Supplement

The most stimulating and well-written reassessment of medieval Europe that has appeared for many years.
— Eric Christiansen

The New York Review of Books

. . . 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.

Journal of Interdisciplinary History

One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1993

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