Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/WY358Q At the Dawn of Modernity Biology, Culture, and Material Life in Europe after the Year 1000 By: David Levine Publisher: University of California Press Print ISBN: 9780520220584, 0520220587 eText ISBN: 9780520923676, 0520923677 Edition: 1st Pages: 438 Copyright year: 2001 Format: PDF Available from $ 63.00 USD SKU 9780520923676 Looking at a neglected period in the social history of modernization, David Levine investigates the centuries that followed the year 1000, when a new kind of society emerged in Europe. New commercial routines, new forms of agriculture, new methods of information technology, and increased population densities all played a role in the prolonged transition away from antiquity and toward modernity. At the Dawn of Modernity highlights both top-down and bottom-up changes that characterized the social experience of early modernization. In the former category are the Gregorian Reformation, the imposition of feudalism, and the development of centralizing state formations. Of equal importance to Levine's portrait of the emerging social order are the bottom-up demographic relations that structured everyday life, because the making of the modern world, in his view, also began in the decisions made by countless men and women regarding their families and circumstances. Levine ends his story with the cataclysm unleashed by the Black Death in 1348, which brought three centuries of growth to a grim end.
