The Body Broken: Medieval Europe 13001520

In this long-awaited new textbook, Charles F. Briggs offers a sweeping survey of Europe in the later Middle Ages, situating it in its context in global history. Moving thematically through the period, the book explores how medieval Christendom responded to the unprecedented natural, social, economic, religious and political crises of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, bringing about Europe's transition from its 'medieval' to its more fragmented, but globally connected, 'early modern' identity. The Body Broken draws on a large body of new and revisionist scholarship on everything from the causes and extent of the Great Famine and the Black Death, to women's and gender history, from the structure and development of the medieval state, to Europe's place in global history. Complete with maps, tables, chronology, annotated bibliography and a plate section, this book is the complete authoritative student's guide to Europe in the later Middle Ages.Briggs, Charles F. is the author of 'The Body Broken: Medieval Europe 13001520', published 2010 under ISBN 9780415341509 and ISBN 0415341507.