Ch. 2: Italy, 1273-1313, Pt. 1

The End of the Middle Age: 1273-1453

by Eleanor Constance LODGE (1869 - 1936)

Eleanor Constance Lodge, (1869-1936), was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Letters from the University of Oxford. In this short survey, the 180 years between 1273 and 1453 are characterized as a period of "transition--a time in which medieval characteristics were decaying and modern characteristics were growing up." This is the age of Joan of Arc, of the recovery of Spain from the Moors, of the failed Crusades of the Teutonic Knights, and of the union of Poland and Lithuania under the strong house of Jagello. The Swiss Republic rose, while schism divided the Papacy and the German states. And all the while the European powers were wrangling among themselves, the Ottoman Turks were advancing across the eastern Mediterranean. The book closes with the fall of Constantinople before the overwhelming assault by land and sea of the great general, Mehmed the Conqueror, which marked the end, after 1500 years, of the Eastern Roman Empire. - Summary by Pamela Nagami

Listen next episodes of The End of the Middle Age: 1273-1453:
Ch. 6: Schisms in the Papacy and Empire, Pt. 2 , Ch. 13: The Greek Empire and the Ottoman Turks, Pt. 2 , Ch. 10: History of France, 1380-1453, Pt. 1 , Ch. 10: History of France, 1380-1453, Pt. 2 , Ch. 11: The Shores of the Baltic, Pt. 1 , Ch. 11: The Shores of the Baltic, Pt. 2 , Ch. 12: The Spanish Peninsula, Pt. 1 , Ch. 12: The Spanish Peninsula, Pt. 2 , Ch. 13: The Greek Empire and the Ottoman Turks, Pt. 1 , Ch. 2: Italy, 1273-1313, Pt. 2 , Ch. 3: French History, 1273-1328, Pt. 1 , Ch. 3: French History, 1273-1328, Pt. 2 , Ch. 4: Italy, 1313-1378, Pt. 1 , Ch. 4: Italy, 1313-1378, Pt. 2 , Ch. 5: Rise of the Swiss Republic, Pt. 1 , Ch. 5: Rise of the Swiss Republic, Pt. 2 , Ch. 6: Schisms in the Papacy and Empire, Pt. 1 , Ch. 7: French History, 1328-1380, Pt. 1 , Ch. 7: French History, 1328-1380, Pt. 2 , Ch. 8: Empire and Papacy, 1414-1453, Pt. 1 , Ch. 8: Empire and Papacy, 1414-1453, Pt. 2 , Ch. 9: Italy, 1382-1453, Pt. 1 , Ch. 9: Italy, 1382-1453, Pt. 2