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What's New- NEW! More balanced coverage throughout the text due to the additional coverage of women's history, social and cultural history, and the history of the Late Middle Ages.
- NEW! This edition's Chapter 7, now titled Division, Invasion, and Reorganization, combines coverage of chapters Seven and Eight of the previous edition.
- NEW! A much-expanded Chapter 11 including a discussion of political theory andincreased coverage of intellectual trends.
- NEW! A reorganization of the presentation of the investiture controversy.
- NEW! Chapter 14, Famine Plague, and Recovery, was added to fill out coverage of the Later Middle Ages.
- NEW! Glossary included which helps students with new or challenging terminology. Terms found in the glossary are introduced in boldface in the text.
- NEW! More dates are noted than before. As each monarch, pope, or ruler is introduced, the dates of rulership are given. The lifespan dates are provided for many other important figures discussed in the text.
- NEW! More that twenty timelines were created to replace the chronological charts found in previous editions.
- NEW! Bibliographies have been placed at the end of each chapter.
- NEW! Biographical sketches, a wonderful innovation of recent editions of Medieval Europe: A Short History, have been expanded so that each chapter contains one.
- NEW! Citations have been provided for quotations new to this edition.
- NEW! Coverage of Byzantium and Islam is still largely confined to Chapters 3 and 5, but is now extended to 1500.
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education