Selected Topics in General History of the Middle Ages

The more important topics of the period between the 6th and the 15th century are discussed: European society and economy in the early medieval age, feudalism, Frankish state, relation between profane and religious authorities, the fight for investiture, heresies, Venice in the medieval age, the beginning of humanism and renaissance.

Bibliography depends on selected topics.
Zgodovinopisje v srednjem veku: zvrsti, obdobja, posebnosti, Ljubljana 2000, 79 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 108416512
D. Knowles, D. Obolensky, Zgodovina Cerkve 2, Srednji vek (600-1500), Ljubljana 1991, 546 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 2585347
Michael McCormick. Origins of the European Economy: Communications and Commerce, A.D. 300-900, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2010, str. 281 – 342; COBISS.SI-ID - 45629794
Chris Wickham. Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400 - 800, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006, str. 17 – 55. COBISS.SI-ID - 33777250
Brian Tierney, The Crisis of Church and State 1050 – 1300, Toronto : Toronto University Press, Medieval Academy of America, 2004, 1 - 171. COBISS.SI-ID - 33554530
Johan Huizinga, Jesen srednjega veka. Ljubljana : Studia Humanitatis, 2011, 91 – 291. COBISS.SI-ID - 260632576
Jacques Le Goff, Nastanek vic. Ljubljana: Studia Humanitatis, 2008, 231 – 265 in 315 – 355 COBISS.SI-ID - 242032384
Peter Burke, Evropska renesansa (Središča in obrobja). Ljubljana : *cf 2004 COBISS.SI-ID - 216356608
Pierre Milza, Zgodovina Italije, Ljubljana : Slovenska matica 2012. COBISS.SI-ID - 263955968

Recommended bibliography:
Eugenio Garin, Spisi o humanizmu in renesansi. Ljubljana : Studia humanitatis, 1993.
Alberto Tenenti, Občutje smrti in ljubezen do življenja v renesansi. Ljubljana : Studia humanitatis, 1987.
Frederic Chapin Lane, Benetke, pomorska republika. Ljubljana: Slovenska matica, 2020.
Gene A. Brucker, Renaissance Florence. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1969.