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Renaissance World % The History of the RENAISSANCE WORLD % HistRen.05.indd 1 8/1/13 4:19 PM HistRen.05.indd 2 8/1/13 4:19 PM Also by Susan Wise Bauer The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child Volume I: Ancient Times Volume II: The Middle Ages Volume III: Early Modern Times Volume IV: The Modern Age The Complete Writer: Writing with Ease The Complete Writer: Writing with Skill The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America With Jessie Wise The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home HistRen.05.indd 3 8/1/13 4:19 PM HistRen.05.indd 4 8/1/13 4:19 PM The History of the RENAISSANCE WORLD From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople Susan Wise Bauer B W . W . Norton & Company New York London HistRen.05.indd 5 8/1/13 4:19 PM Copyright © 2013 by Susan Wise Bauer Since this page cannot legibly accommodate all the copyright notices, page 749 constitutes an extension of the copyright page. All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First Edition For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110 For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact W. W. Norton Special Sales at [email protected] or 800-233-4830 Manufacturing by R.R. Donnelley, Harrisonburg Book design by Margaret M. Wagner Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bauer, S. Wise. The history of the Renaissance world : from the rediscovery of Aristotle to the conquest of Constantinople / Susan Wise Bauer. — First edition. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-393-05976-2 (hardcover) 1. Renaissance. I. Title. CB361.B36 2013 940.2'1—dc23 2013021092 W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10110 www.wwnorton.com W. W. Norton & Company Ltd. Castle House, 75/76 Wells Street, London W1T 3QT 1234567890 HistRen.05.indd 6 8/1/13 4:19 PM For Daniel HistRen.05.indd 7 8/1/13 4:19 PM HistRen.05.indd 8 8/1/13 4:19 PM Contents % List of Maps xv List of Illustrations xix Acknowledgments xxi Preface xxiii Part One RENAISSANCES 1 One Logic and Compromise ■ England, Rome, and the Holy Roman Empire, 1100–1122 3 Two The Crusader Enemy ■ Byzantium, Venice, and the Crusader kingdoms, 1100–1138 13 Three Anarchy ■ England, Western Francia, and the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1120–1139 19 Four The Lost Homeland ■ China, Dai Viet, and Khmer, 1127–1150 25 Five Crusade Resurrected ■ The Turkish and Crusader kingdoms, with visitations from Germany and France, 1128–1149 34 Six Reconquista and Rediscovery ■ The Spanish peninsula, 1134–1146 43 Seven Questions of Authority ■ France and Italy, 1135–1160 49 Eight The New Song ■ China, 1141–1165 55 Nine The Heiji Disturbance ■ Japan, 1142–1159 61 Ten Death of an Army ■ Goryeo, 1146–1197 69 Eleven The First Plantagenet ■ England and Western Francia, 1147–1154 76 Twelve Frederick Barbarossa ■ Germany and Italy, 1147–1177 81 Thirteen The Almohads in Spain ■ North Africa and Spain, 1147–1177 88 Fourteen “Many Nations” ■ Africa, sometime in the twelfth century 94 Fifteen The Last Fatimid Caliph ■ The Turkish and Crusader kingdoms, 1149–1171 102 ix HistRen.05.indd 9 8/1/13 4:19 PM x Contents Sixteen Monks and Brahmans ■ South India, 1150–1189 108 Seventeen Conquest of the Willing ■ Northern India, 1150–1202 117 Eighteen Death of a Priest ■ England and France, 1154–1170 126 Nineteen Foreign Relations ■ Byzantium, Hungary, and the Balkans, 1157–1168 134 Twenty The Venetian Problem ■ Byzantium and Italy, 1171–1185 141 Twenty-One Resentments ■ England, Ireland, and France, 1171–1186 148 Twenty-Two Saladin ■ The Turkish and Crusader kingdoms, 1171–1188 155 Twenty-Three The Gempei War ■ Japan, 1179–1185 161 Twenty-Four Kings’ Crusade ■ England, France, and the Turkish and Crusader kingdoms, 1188–1199 166 Twenty-Five The Sack of Constantinople ■ Byzantium and Europe, 1195–1204 176 Part Two INVASIONS, HERESIES, AND UPRISINGS 185 Twenty-Six Westward ■ Central and South America, 1200 187 Twenty-Seven The Mongol School of Warfare ■ China, North and Central Asia, 1201–1215 195 Twenty-Eight John Softsword ■ England and France, 1203–1213 202 Twenty-Nine Sundiata of the Mali ■ Africa, 1203–1240 207 Thirty The Jokyu War ■ Japan, 1203–1242 211 Thirty-One The Unwanted Throne ■ The old Byzantine lands, 1204–1225 217 Thirty-Two The First Delhi Sultanate ■ Northern and central India, 1206–1236 225 Thirty-Three Heresy ■ France, 1209–1210 233 Thirty-Four Reconquest and Failure ■ France and the Spanish peninsula, 1210–1213 242 Thirty-Five From Bouvines to Magna Carta ■ France, England, and the Holy Roman Empire, 1213–1217 248 Thirty-Six The Birth of the Inquisition ■ France, 1215–1229 257 Thirty-Seven Moving Westward ■ China, North and Central Asia, and the Middle East, 1215–1229 262 Thirty-Eight South of India ■ India and Sri Lanka, 1215–1283 270 Thirty-Nine The Fifth Crusade ■ Egypt and the Crusader kingdoms, 1217–1221 275 Forty From the Golden Bull to the Baltic Crusade ■ Hungary, Poland, and the lands of the Lithuanians, 1218–1233 281 HistRen.05.indd 10 8/1/13 4:19 PM Contents xi Forty-One Lakeshores, Highlands, and Hilltops ■ Africa, 1221–1290 287 Forty-Two The Sixth Crusade ■ The Holy Roman Empire, the Crusader kingdoms, and the Ayyubid empire, 1223–1229 293 Forty-Three The Tran Dynasty ■ Southeast Asia, 1224–1257 298 Forty-Four Young Kings ■ England, France, and the kingdoms of Spain, 1227–1242 303 Forty-Five The Mongol Horde ■ Most of Asia and Europe, 1229–1248 310 Forty-Six The Debt of Hatred ■ The Holy Roman Empire, 1229–1250 318 Forty-Seven The Shadow of God ■ India, 1236–1266 326 Forty-Eight The Seventh Crusade ■ France, Egypt, and Syria, 1244–1250 332 Forty-Nine The Splintering Khanate ■ The Mongol conquests, 1246–1264 339 Fifty The Mamluks of Egypt ■ Egypt, Syria, and the Mongol lands, 1250–1268 346 Fifty-One Louis the Saint ■ France and the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1250–1267 353 Fifty-Two The Lion’s Den ■ Germany, Italy, Sicily, and England, 1252–1273 359 Fifty-Three The Recapture of Constantinople ■ The Latin Empire and the empire of Nicaea, 1254–1261 367 Fifty-Four The Last Crusades ■ North Africa, Egypt, France, Italy, and the Crusader kingdoms, 1270–1291 372 Fifty-Five Kublai Khan ■ China, Japan, Goryeo, Champa, and the Dai Viet, 1273–1294 379 Fifty-Six The Sicilian Vespers ■ Germany, Italy, Sicily, Aragon, and France, 1274–1288 388 Fifty-Seven The Wars of Edward I ■ England, Scotland, Wales, and France, 1275–1299 394 Fifty-Eight The Second Sultanate of Delhi ■ India, 1287–1300 403 Fifty-Nine The End of the Papal Monarchy ■ France, Germany, and Italy, 1301–1317 410 Sixty The Appearance of the Ottomans ■ Byzantium and the Turks of the Il-khanate, 1302–1347 419 Sixty-One The Fall of the Khilji ■ India, 1303–1320 427 Sixty-Two The Triumph of the Bruce ■ Scotland, England, and Ireland, 1304–1314 433 HistRen.05.indd 11 8/1/13 4:19 PM xii Contents Part Three CATASTROPHES 441 Sixty-Three The Great Famine ■ All of Europe, 1310–1321 443 Sixty-Four The Sultan and the Khan ■ Egypt, the Il-khanate, and the Golden Horde, 1310–1335 449 Sixty-Five Mansa Musa of Mali ■ West Africa, 1312–1360 455 Sixty-Six After the Famine ■ France and England, 1318–1330 461 Sixty-Seven The Southern and Northern Courts ■ Japan, 1318–1339 470 Sixty-Eight Rebellions ■ India, 1320–1351 478 Sixty-Nine Naming the Renaissance ■ Germany, Italy, and France, 1322–1341 484 Seventy The Cities in the Lake ■ Central America, 1325–1375 491 Seventy-One A Hundred Years of War ■ France and England, 1329–1347 497 Seventy-Two The End of the World ■ Asia, Europe, and India, 1338–1353 505 Part Four REGroupinGS 513 Seventy-Three The Will to War ■ France, England, and the Spanish kingdoms, 1349–1369 515 Seventy-Four White Lotus, Red Turban ■ China, 1351–1382 525 Seventy-Five After the Mongols ■ Southeast Asia, 1351–1399 531 Seventy-Six The Turks and the Desperate Emperor ■ Byzantium and the lands of the Turks, with side journeys to France and Italy 537 Seventy-Seven The Disintegration of Delhi ■ India and Sri Lanka, 1352–1388 544 Seventy-Eight The Union of Krewo ■ Poland, Hungary, and Lithuania, 1364–1399 551 Seventy-Nine The Rebirth of the Mongol Horde ■ Central Asia, the Middle East, India, and the lands of the Rus’, 1367–1399 557 Eighty Compromises and Settlements ■ The Korean peninsula and Japan, 1368–1392 565 Eighty-One The House of Visconti and the Papal States ■ France and Italy, 1368–1390 571 Eighty-Two Bad Beginnings ■ France and England, 1369–1381 577 Eighty-Three Dislocation ■ Africa, 1370–1399 587 Eighty-Four Madness and Usurpation ■ Castile, Portugal, England, and France, 1383–1401 591 HistRen.05.indd 12 8/1/13 4:19 PM Contents xiii Eighty-Five The Battle of Nicopolis ■ The Ottoman empire, Constantinople, and the lands of eastern Europe, 1385–1396 598 Eighty-Six The Union and Disunion of Kalmar ■ Scandinavia, 1387–1449 604 Eighty-Seven The Hussite Uprising ■ Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bohemia, 1388–1419 611 Eighty-Eight The Taking of France ■ France and England, 1401–1420 620 Eighty-Nine After Timurlane ■ The north of India, the empire of Timur, the lands of the Ottoman Turks, Egypt, and Byzantium, 1401–1415 627 Part Five ENDINGS 635 Ninety The Withdrawal of the Ming ■ China and the land of the Dai
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