(The) Shorter Cambridge medieval history : the twelfth century to the renaissance. Volume II / by C. W. Previte-Orton

Includes retrospect, appendices and index.

THE PAPACY AT ITS ZENITH AND THE SECULAR KINGDOMS: Pope innocent III -- The friars and the inquisition -- The empire, France and England -- The smaller states of Europe -- THE LEADERSHIP OF FRANCE: Italy, France and Germany, 1270-1314 -- The British Isles and Edward I (1272-1307) -- Spain and Portugal: the reconquest -- THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY: The Papacy, Germany and Italy -- The states of Western Europe -- Northern and Eastern Europe -- Social and political conceptions of the middle ages -- THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES: The great Schism and the conciliar movement -- France, England and Germany, c.1380c-1450 -- Eastern and Northern Europe in the fifteenth century -- THE TRANSITION TO MODERN TIMES: France, Burgundy and the empire -- The British Isles -- The states of Southern Europe -- The Renaissance: its growth and triumph