European_History

European History The current, editable version of this book is available in Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection, at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/European_History Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License.” Contents Contents………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 1 Preface - A Background of European History…………………………………………………………………… 13 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 13 Historical worldview………………………………………………………………………………………………. 13 Fall of the Roman Empire…………………………………………………………………………………………… 14 Barbarians unite…………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 16 Romanesque and Gothic art………………………………………………………………………………………… 19 Papal power in the Middle Ages………………………………………………………………………………….. 21 Society in the Middle Ages…………………………………………………………………………………………. 22 Ch......