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Government in the later thirteenth century -- Italy and the Mediterranean in the second half of the thirteenth century: The rivalry of French, Greeks and Arargones, and the involvement of the Papacy -- The aggrandizemente of the French monarchy -- Fragmentation of Germany -- Economic setbacks and developments in the latter Middle Ages -- The troubles of the Roman Church -- French defeats and chivalrous ideals: The Hundred Years War -- The early Renaissance -- Burgundy, the Great Duchy of the West -- The Turkish conquest of south-eastern Europe -- The tyrannies in Italy -- The French recovery -- The unification of Spain -- German disunity and the origins of the Reformation -- Political writers and the stronger state -- Population and the family.