For Sale 2nd Edition

Cloth, dj, F/VG+. 224pp, b/w illustratuions throughout, index, a fine copy in a near fine dustjacket. ~ 1st UK edition. ~ Study of the ways in which Youth movements have rallied against authority & Government and the way in which the Governments of Socialist & Capitalist countries have tried to manipulate the younger members of society through these movements in return. A rather bleak history.

Paperback, F. 365pp, 100 b/w illustrations, index, a fine copy. New. ~ 1st edition thus. ~ Good single volume history of Europe in the Middle Ages.

ID 129729 Tipo de encadernação: brochura Estado de conservação: bom Capas e lombada um pouco gastas. Mancha do tempo no corte. Sublinhados a caneta azul amarela e rosa no texto. Assinatura de antigo dono na folha de rosto.História: Idade Média: Europa. Aristocracia. Campesinato. Igreja. Cidades. Economia. Século XII. Crusadas. Amor cortês. Literatura. Movimentos populares. Intelectuais. Universidades. Paris. Ciência. Judeus. Mulheres. Arte.

An Authoratative history of the middle ages in Europe. In 1100 Europe was open in boundaries, faith and outlook. By the middle of the 14th century it was closed - by Mongol & Turkish invasions, by the rift with Byzantium, by the intollerant dogmatism of the church.Friedrich Heer's tour de Force of scholarship and orginality recreates that world : the daily life of aristocrats and peasants, town dwellers and countryfolk; the growth of serfdom and the flowering of chivalry; the roles of cleric and courtier, painter and poet, King and Philosopher. In it we can see our own world in embryo. As Professor Heer writes: History is the present, the present is history'