Study and Teaching Guide for the History of the Renaissance World

Content: Renaissances. Logic and compromise : England, Rome, and the Holy Roman Empire, 1100-1122 
 The Crusader enemy : Byzantium, Venice, and the Crusader kingdoms, 1100-1138 
 Anarchy : England, Western Francia, and the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1120-1139 
 The lost homeland : China, Dai Viet, and Khmer, 1127-1150 
 Crusade resurrected : The Turkish and Crusader kingdoms, with visitations from Germany and France, 1128-1149 
 Reconquista and rediscovery : The Spanish peninsula, 1134-1146 
 Questions of authority : France and Italy, 1135-1160 
 The new song : China, 1141-1165 
 The Heiji disturbance : Japan, 1142-1159 
 Death of an army : Goryeo, 1146-1197 
 The first Plantagenet : England and Western Francia, 1147-1154 
 Frederick Barbarossa : Germany and Italy, 1147-1177 
 The Almohads in Spain 
 North Africa and Spain, 1147-1177 
 \"Many nations\" : Africa, sometime in the twelfth century 
 The last Fatimid caliph : the Turkish and Crusader kingdoms, 1149-1171 
 Monks and Brahmans : South India, 1150-1189 
 Conquest of the willing : Northern India, 1150-1202 
 Death of a priest : England and France, 1154-1170 
 Foreign relations : Byzantium, Hungary, and the Balkans, 1157-1168 
 The Venetian problem : Byzantium and Italy, 1171-1185 
 Resentments : England, Ireland, and France, 1171-1186 
 Saladin : the Turkish and Crusader kingdoms, 1171-1188 
 The Gempei War : Japan, 1179-1185 
 Kings\' crusade : England, France, and the Turkish and Crusader kingdoms, 1188-1199 
 The sack of Constantinople : Byzantium and Europe, 1195-1204 --
Invasions, heresies, and uprisings. Westward : Central and South America, 1200 
 The Mongol school of warfare : China, North and Central Asia, 1201-1215 
 John Softsword : England and France, 1203-1213 
 Sundiata of the Mali : Africa, 1203-1240 
 The Jokyu War : Japan, 1203-1242 
 The unwanted throne : the old Byzantine lands, 1203-1225 
 The first Delhi sultanate : Northern and central India, 1206-1236 
 Heresy : France, 1209-1210 
 Reconquest and failure : France and the Spanish peninsula, 1210-1213 
 From Bouvines to Magna Carta : France, England, and the Holy Roman Empire, 1213-1217 
 The birth of the Inquisition : France, 1215-1229 
 Moving westward : China, North and Central Asia, and the Middle East, 1215-1229 
 South of India : India and Sri Lanka, 1215-1283 
 The fifth crusade : Egypt and the Crusader kingdoms, 1217-1221 
 From the golden bull to the Baltic Crusade : Hungary, Poland, and the lands of the Lithuanians, 1218-1233 
 Lakeshores, highlands, and hilltops : Africa, 1221-1290 
 The sixth crusade : The Holy Roman Empire, the Crusader kingdoms, and the Ayyubid empire, 1223-1229 
 The Tran Dynasty : southeast Asia, 1224-1257 
 Young kings : England, France, and the kingdoms of Spain, 1227-1242 
 The Mongol horde 
 Most of Asia and Europe, 1229-1248 
 The debt of hatred : the Holy Roman Empire, 1229-1250 
 The shadow of God : India, 1236-1266 
 The seventh crusade : France, Egypt, and Syria, 1244-1250 
 The splintering Khanate : the Mongol conquests, 1246-1264 
 The Mamluks of Egypt : Egypt, Syria, and the Mongol lands, 1250-1268 
 Louis the Saint : France and the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1250-1267 
 The Lion\'s den : Germany, Italy, Sicily, and England, 1252-1273 
 The recapture of Constantinople : the Latin Empire and the empire of Nicaea, 1254-1261 
 The last crusades : North Africa, Egypt, France, Italy, and the Crusader kingdoms, 1270-1291 
 Kublai Khan : China, Japan, Goryeo, Champa, and the Dai Viet, 1273-1294 
 The Sicilian vespers : Germany, Italy, Sicily, Aragon, and France, 1274-1288 
 The wars of Edward I : England, Scotland, Wales, and France, 1275-1299 
 The second sultanate of Delhi : India, 1287-1300 
 The end of the papal monarchy : France, Germany, and Italy, 1301-1317 
 The appearance of the Ottomans : Byzantium and the Turks of the Il-khanate, 1302-1347 
 The fall of the Khilji : India, 1303-1320 
 The triumph of the Bruce : Scotland, England, and Ireland, 1304-1314 --Catastrophes. The Great Famine : all of Europe, 1310-1321 
 The Sultan and the Khan : Egypt, the Il-khanate, and the Golden Horde, 1310-1335 
 Mansa Musa of Mali : West Africa, 1312-1360 
 After the famine : France and England, 1318-1330 
 The southern and northern courts : Japan, 1318-1339 
 Rebellions : India, 1320-1351 
 Naming the Renaissance : Germany, Italy, and France, 1322-1341 
 The cities in the lake : Central America, 1325-1375 
 A hundred years of war : France and England, 1329-1347 
 The end of the world : Asia, Europe, and India, 1338-1353 --
Regroupings. The will to war : France, England, the Spanish kingdoms, 1349-1369 
 White lotus, red turban : China, 1351-1382 
 After the Mongols : Southeast Asia, 1351-1399 
 The Turks and the desperate emperor : Byzantium and the lands of the Turks, with side journeys to France and Italy 
 The disintegration of Delhi : India and Sri Lanka, 1352-1388 
 The union of Krewo : Poland, Hungary, and Lithuania, 1364-1399 
 The rebirth of the Mongol horde : Central Asia, the Middle East, India, and the lands of the Rus\', 1367-1399 
 Compromises and settlements : the Korean peninsula and Japan, 1368-1392 
 The House of Visconti and the Papal States : France and Italy, 1368-1392 
 Bad beginnings : France and England, 1369-1381 
 Dislocation : Africa, 1370-1399 
 Madness and usurpation : Castile, Portugal, England, and France, 1383-1401 
 The Battle of Nicopolis : The Ottoman empire, Constantinople, and the lands of eastern Europe, 1385-1396 
 The union and disunion of Kalmar : Scandinavia, 1387-1449 
 The Hussite uprising : Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bohemia, 1388-1419 
 The taking of France : France and England, 1401-1420 
 After Timurlane : The north of India, the empire of Timur, the lands of the Ottoman Turks, Egypt, and Byzantium, 1401-1415 --
Endings. The withdrawal of the Ming : China and the land of the Dai Viet, 1405-1455 
 Failure : The old lands of the Holy Roman Empire and the remnants of Byzantium, 1412-1440 
 Perpetual slavery : Portugal, Castile, and Africa, 1415-1455 
 The loss of France : France and England, 1422-1453 
 The fall : the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, along with Hungary, Germany, Wallachia, Bohemia, and Serbia, 1430-1453.