Medieval Panorama
The English Scene from Conquest to Reformation

This 1938 book by distinguished medievalist G. G. Coulton, comprises fifty-two chapters based on a lifetime of research that cover every aspect of medieval life.

G. G. Coulton (Author)

9781108010535, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 August 2010

834 pages, 39 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 4.7 cm, 1.04 kg

First published in 1938 and reprinted many times, this book by the distinguished medievalist G. G. Coulton (1858–1947) was described by The Times Literary Supplement as 'a triumph of presentation ... This survey is in short an achievement notable alike for its erudition and also for the grace with which such learning is here so lightly carried. ... it would be hard to discover a better introduction to the everyday life of England during those pregnant centuries between the Norman Conquest and the Reformation'. Fifty-two chapters based on a lifetime of research cover every aspect of medieval life, from the emergence of feudalism to 'the bursting of the dykes' at the Reformation. The focus is largely on England, but the European context is also clearly defined in this remarkable synthesis: as a review in The Observer said at first publication, 'There is no one else like Dr Coulton.'

Preface
Introduction
1. The cauldron of God's wrath
2. Bishops of Rome
3. Conversion of the wild men
4. Feudalism emerges
5. Land and folk
6. The village (1)
7. The village (2)
8. Village dance and song
9. Nature and superstition
10. Popes and prelates
11. Rector and vicar
12. The making of a priest
13. Church statistics
14. The shepherd
15. The flock (1)
16. The flock (2)
17. The silver lining
18. Dante's Commedia
19. The royal court
20. Chivalry
21. Chaucer and Malory
22. The monastery
23. Cloister life
24. The town
25. Home life
26. Trade and travel
27. Just price and usury
28. The ghetto (1)
29. The ghetto (2)
30. Justice and police
31. From school to university
32. Scholastics and Bible
33. Science
34. Medicine
35. Freethought and inquisition
36. The papal schism
37. The Lollards
38. The Black Death
39. The Hundred years' war
40. The mystics
41. The peasant saint
42. Artist life
43. Literary life
44. Sports and theatre
45. Women's life
46. Marriage and divorce
47. The old and the new
48. More and Utopia
49. The fight for the Bible
50. The open Bible
52. Peasant and highbrow
52. The bursting of the dykes
Notes
Index.

Subject Areas: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 [HBLC]