The Year 1000

New York: Harper & Row; Harper Torchbooks, 1971. x, 190 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. 1st thus. CONTENTS: Introduction: The year 1000 as a moment in history. Mediterranean antiquity. The German Middle Ages and the Western Middle Ages. Romans and barbarians. Contradictions in the Carolingian Empire. Traditions, influences, experiments. CHAPTER 1. THE PROBLEM OF THE TERRORS: Origin and development of millenarian beliefs. [millenium]. Revival of apocalyptic studies. Mozarabic and Carolingian apocalypses. Historical testimoy. Rauol Glaber. The role of the archaeological study of the Middle Ages. CHAPTER 2. BUILDING OF THE WEST: Historical landscape of the year 1000. The conditions of life. Cities and religious communities. Status of Christianity. Monastic reform in the tenth century [10th] : St. Odilo and Cluny. William of Volpiano. Abbon de Fleury. The Catalonian milieu. Political events of the year 1000 in the West; the North Atlantic; the Iberian peninsula; Capetian France, Robert the Pious. CHAPTER 3. THE POPE IN THE YEAR 1000; Gerbert D'Aurillac. His youth. The years spent in Cataconia. Rome and the House of Saxony. Years spent teaching in Reims : Richerus. Gerbert as abbot of Bobbio. Gerbert and Otto III. Gerbert as abbot of Ravenna. Sylvester II. CHAPTER 4. THE UNIVERSAL EMPIRE: Revival of the Empire. The Rome of Otto III. Failure of the universal monarchy.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.