The High Middle Ages, 1200-1540 (Paladin Books) - Softcover

The Making of Britain 1066-1939: The High Middle Ages 1200-1550

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 352 pages. Trevor Rowley begins The High Middle Ages in the late twelfth century. He end s it not with the arrival of the Tudor monarchs on the throne after 1485, as is conventional, but with the destruction of the wealth and power of the Church in the 1530s.The passing of the monasteries marked much more clearly than an y change in ruler the transition from an economic and social system based on bal ance - however shifting and uneasy - between Church and State. Hereafter the Sta te was to reign supreme.The later Middle Ages were not a period of decay but of rapid change. The Venetian Ambassador wrote in 1497: The riches of Engla nd are greater than those of any country in Europe . I myself can vouch for wh at I have seen. The physical evidence of this wealth remains upon the landscape . From social and economic convulsion emerged a society marked by restless energ y and great creativity. Artikel-Nr. 5696af

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