The Medieval World, Volume 10Peter Linehan, Janet Laughland Nelson This groundbreaking collection brings the Middle Ages to life and conveys the distinctiveness of this diverse, constantly changing period. Thirty-eight scholars bring together one medieval world from many disparate worlds, from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu. This extraordinary set of reconstructions presents the reader with a vivid re-drawing of the medieval past, offering fresh appraisals of the evidence and modern historical writing. Chapters are thematically linked in four sections:
Packed full of original scholarship, The Medieval World is essential reading for anyone studying medieval history. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Courts in East and West | 14 |
At the Spanish Frontier | 37 |
Muslims in Christian Iberia 10001526 varieties of Mudejar experience | 60 |
How many Medieval Europes? The pagans of Hungary and regional diversity in Christendom | 77 |
Christians Barbarians and Monsters the European discovery of the world beyond Islam | 93 |
The Establishment of Medieval Hermeticism | 111 |
What the Crusades meant to Europe | 131 |
The Outward Look Britain and beyond in medieval Irish literature | 383 |
Powerful Women in the Early Middle Ages queens and abbesses | 400 |
Perceptions of an Early Medieval Urban Landscape | 418 |
Assembly Politics in Western Europe from the Eighth Century to the Twelfth | 434 |
Beyond the Comune the Italian citystate and its inheritance | 453 |
Timbuktu and Europe trade cities and Islam in medieval West Africa | 471 |
Medieval Law | 487 |
Rulers and Justice 12001500 | 505 |
The Crusades and the Persecution of the Jews | 146 |
Strange Eventful Histories the Middle Ages in the cinema | 163 |
Political Rituals and Political Imagination in the Medieval West from the Fourth Century to the Eleventh | 189 |
Modern Mythologies of Medieval Chivalry | 214 |
The Unique Favour of Penance the Church and the people c8000c1100 | 229 |
Gender Negotiations in France during the central Middle Ages the literary evidence | 246 |
Symbolism and Medieval Religious Thought | 267 |
Sexuality in the Middle Ages | 279 |
Sin Crime and the Pleasures of the Flesh the medieval Church judges sexual offences | 294 |
Through a Glass Darkly seeing medieval heresy | 308 |
The Corpse in the Middle Ages the problem of the division of the body | 327 |
The Crucifixion and the Censorship of Art around 1300 | 342 |
Space Culture and Kingdoms in Early Medieval Europe | 368 |
The Kings Counsellors two Faces a Portuguese perspective | 520 |
Fullness of Power? Popes bishops and the policy of the Church | 536 |
A New Legal Cosmos late Roman lawyers and the early medieval | 559 |
Medieval Monasticism | 578 |
Aspects of the Early Medieval Peasant Economy as revealed in the Polyptych of Prum | 607 |
Privilege in Medieval Societies from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Century or How the exception proves the rule | 623 |
What did the TwelfthCentury Renaissance Mean? | 637 |
The English Parish and its Clergy in the Thirteenth Century | 650 |
Everyday Life and Elites in the later Middle Ages the civilised and the barbarian | 673 |
On 1500 | 693 |
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