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Overview
This comprehensive five-volume set contains readable essays that describe and interpret the most important global events since the European Renaissance, some accompanied by related document excerpts and primary source materials.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Acknowledgments.
Preface.
1: The Reconquista, c. 711–1492.
2: Introduction.
3: Interpretive Essay.
4: Abd Al-Rahman III (c. 889–961).
5: Alfonso XI, King of Castile (1312–1350).
6: Almoravids.
7: El Cid (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar) (1043–1099).
8: Ferdinand V, King of Aragon (1452–1516).
9: Granada, Siege of (1491–1492).
10: Isabella I, Queen of Castile (1451–1504).
11: James I, King of Aragon (1208–1276).
12: Document: “A Letter to an Old Crusader” (Twelfth Century).
13: The Renaissance, c. 1300–1630.
14: Introduction.
15: Interpretive Essay.
16: Erasmus, Desiderius (c. 1469–1536).
17: Medici, Lorenzo de’ (1449–1492).
18: Raphael (1483–1520).
19: Document: Petrarch’s Letter to Cicero (c. 1345).
20: Document: Excerpt from Baldassare Castiglione’s the Book of the Courtier (1528).
21: The Hundred Years’ War, 1337–1453.
22: Introduction.
23: Interpretive Essay.
24: Battle of the Herrings (1429).
25: Combat of the Thirty (1351).
26: Flanders.
27: French Civil War (Fifteenth Century).
28: Great Company.
29: Guesclin, Bertrand du (c. 1320–1380).
30: Pâtis.
31: Document: Excerpts from The Chronicles of Jean Froissart (c. 1388).
32: The Black Death, 1347–1351.
33: Introduction.
34: Interpretive Essay.
35: Flagellants.
36: Islamic Medicine and the Plague.
37: Document: “On the Plague” from Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron.
38: The Ming Dynasty Comes to Power, 1368–1431.
39: Introduction.
40: Interpretive Essay.
41: Hongwu Emperor (1328–1398).
42: Khan, Kublai (1215–1294).
43: Ming Dynasty.
44: Mongol Conquest of China (Thirteenth Century).
45: Voyages of Zheng He (Fifteenth Century).
46: Yongle Emperor (1360–1424).
47: Document: Excerpts from Marco Polo’s Account of His Travels (c. 1300).
