Medieval panorama : the English scene from conquest to reformation / by G.G. Coulton
Imprint
New York : Meridian Books, 1955
Descript
xiv, 801, [1] p. : ill. ; 23 cm
CONTENT
The cauldron of God's wrath -- Bishops of Rome -- Conversion of the wild men -- Feudalism emerges -- Land and folk -- The village -- Village dance and song -- Nature and superstition -- Popes and prelates -- Rector and vicar -- The making of a priest -- Church statistics -- The shepherd -- The flock (1) -- The silver lining -- Dante's Commedia -- The royal court -- Chivalry -- Chaucer and Malory -- The monastery -- Cloister life -- The town -- Home life -- Trade and travel -- Just price and usury -- The ghetto (1) -- Justice and police -- From school to university -- Scholastics and Bible -- Science -- Medicine -- Frethought and inquisition -- The papal schism -- The Lollards -- The black death -- The Hundred Years' War -- The mystics -- The peasant saint -- Artist life -- Literary life -- Sports and theatre -- Women's life -- Marriage and divorce -- The old and the new -- More and utopia -- The fight for the Bible -- The open Bible -- Peasant and highbrow -- The bursting of the dykes