The process at the heart of change involved social, cultural and institutional transformations whose implementation required extensive popular participation.
The circumstances and outcome of this transformation, he demonstrates, not only shaped medieval and modern Europe but established enduring and fundamental characteristics which differentiated Europe from other world civilizations. Together these changes brought into being for the first time an autonomous city-supporting civilization in non-Mediterranean Europe. Professor Moore argues that the period witnessed the first true revolution in European society, characterized by a transformation in the economy, in family structures, and in the sources of power and the means by which it was exercised. This book provides a radical reassessment of Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth centuries.
0 kommentar(er)
