5336.01 – Topics in the History of Pre-Modern Europe: High & Late Medieval Europe 1000-1500
SHSU, Spring 2012
Book List

Required Books:

1. Lester Little, Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy in Medieval Europe. Ithaca: Cornell Paperbacks (Cornell University Press), 1983. ISBN 0801492475. $19.95

2. Jacques Le Goff, The Birth of Purgatory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. ISBN 0-226-47083-0. $35.00.

3. Robert A. Scott, The Gothic Enterprise: A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral – With a New Preface. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. ISBN 9780520269996. $21.95.

4. Brian A. Catlos, The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050-1300. Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 9780521036443. $61.00.

5. Jonathan Riley-Smith, The Crusades: A History, 2nd edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. ISBN 0300101287. $20.00. (NOTE: be sure to get the 2nd edition published in 2005, not the first edition published in 1987).

6. Peter Jackson, The Mongols and the West: 1221-1410. Longman, 2005. ISBN-10: 0582368960/ ISBN-13: 9780582368965. $38.00.

7. Paul Freedman, Images of the medieval peasant. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0804733732. $29.95.

8. Johan Huizinga. The Autumn of the Middle Ages. Translated by Rodney J. Payton and Ulrich Mammitzsch. University of Chicago Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780226359946. $28.00. (NOTE: be sure to get this particular publication/translation of Huizinga’s work)