Description: Introduction. Part I: The Politics of Western Europe in the FourteenthCentury: . 1. The Netherlands. 2. The Kingdom of France. 3. The Hundred Years War: The First Phase to 1385. 4. Germany and the Empire to 1378. 5. Iberia. Part II: Italy, the Papacy and Europe: . 6. Italian Commerce. 7. The City-State. 8. The Avignon Papacy. 9. Italian Papacy. 10. Italian Politics to 1378. Part III: Economic and Social Forces: . 11. Population. 12. Landlords. 13. The Industrial and Commercial World. 14. The Social Rebellions of the Fourteenth Century. Part IV: The Fourteenth-Century World of Ideas: . 15. Universities and Courts. 16. The Beginnings of Renaissance Ideas. 17. Religious Movements. Part V: The Crisis of the Papacy and the Church: . 18. The Great Schism. 19. The Age of the Councils. 20. The First Reformation: The Hussite Movement. Part VI: Europe and the World Beyond: . 21. Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire. 22. The Beginnings of European Expansion. Part VII: The Fifteenth-Century Crises of theMonarchies: . 23. France: The End of the Hundred Years War. 24. Castile and Aragon. 25. Germany and the Empire. Part VIII: Princes and Towns in the Netherlands andItaly: . 26. Valois Burgundy. 27. Italian Politics. 28. The Ideas of the Italian Renaissance. Epilogue. Bibliography. Index.

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