The Middle Ages in Northwest European Perspective
This book contains the following chapters:
- Introduction
- Prehistoric times in North West Europe
- On the Roman Limes 100 – 450
- Early beliefs, paganism and religion
- Christianity steps into power vacuum
- Germanic, Goth and Viking Migrations
- From Salli to Merovingians 250 – 750
- Missionaries and Monasteries
- The Rise of the Carolingians 600 – 850
- The Early Middle Ages 500 – 1000
- Italy and the Papal Pornocracy 800 – 1100
- Lotharingia, East and West Francia – 843-1100
- Aquitaine and Anjou
- Brabant emerging
- Frisia and Utrecht
- Hamaland, Twente, Bentheim, Munster
- Holland and Zeeland
- Flanders and Hainault
- Low Countries – River Lands
- Gelre and Kleve
- Jonkers van Oss
- The Late Middle Ages
- Trade in the Middle Ages
- Climate Change, Floods, Famine and the Great Death
- Villages and Serfdom 800 – 1300
- The arrival of the cities
- Popular Uprisings
- Heresy and Witch Hunts
- The battle between religion and state
- The Rise and Fall of the Catholic Church 1000 – 1550
- Crusades
- The House of Leuven shaping Brabant – 885 -1200
- Duchy of Brabant – 1190 – 1407
- Dukes of Burgundy 1363 – 1555
- Brabant under Burgundian rule – 1400 – 1450
- Appendix Medieval Architecture (under construction)
- Appendix Sources and miscellaneous
- Appendix Hoe de Heren van Aemstel in Oss terecht kwamen (Dutch)