The medieval world / edited by Peter Linehan and Janet L. Nelson.

Other author Linehan, Peter.
Other author Nelson, Janet L. (Janet Laughland), 1942-
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Descriptionxix, 745 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Subjects
Middle Ages.
Moyen Âge.

Contents Introduction / Peter Linehan, Janet L. Nelson -- Courts in East and West / Jonathon Shepard -- At the Spanish Frontier / Peter Linehan -- Muslims in Christian Iberia, 1000-1526: varieties of Mudejar experience / David Nirenberg -- How many medieval Europes? The 'pagans' of Hungary and regional diversity in Christendom / Nora Berend -- Christians, barbarians and monsters: the European discovery of the world beyond Islam / Peter Jackson -- The establishment of medieval hermeticism / Charles Burnett -- What the Crusades meant to Europe / Christopher Tyerman -- The Crusades and the persecution of the Jews / J.A. Watt -- Strange eventful histories: the Middle Ages in the cinema / Stuart Airlie -- Political rituals and political imagination in the Medieval West from the fourth century to the eleventh / Philippe Buc -- Modern mythologies of medieval chivalry / Dominique Barthelemy -- The unique favour of penance: the Church and the people, c. 800 -- c. 1100 / Sarah Hamilton -- Gender negotiations in France during the central Middle Ages: the literary evidence / Linda Paterson -- Symbolism and medieval religious thought / David d'Avray -- Sexuality in the middle ages / Ruth Mazo Karras -- Sin, crime and the pleasures of the flesh: the medieval Church judges sexual offenses / James Brundage -- Through a glass darkly: seeing medieval heresy / Peter Biller -- The corpse in the middle ages: the problem of the division of the body / Agostino Paravicini Bagliani -- The Crucifixion and the censorship of art around 1300 / Paul Binski -- Space, culture and kingdoms in early medieval Europe / Paul Fouracre -- The outward look: Britain and beyond in medieval Irish literature / Maire Ni Mhaonaigh -- Powerful women in the early Middle Ages: queens and abbesses / Pauline Stafford -- Perceptions of an early medieval urban landscape / Cristina La Rocca -- Assembly politics in western Europe from the eighth century to the twelfth / Timothy Reuter -- Beyond the comune: the Italian city-state and its inheritance / Mario Ascheri -- Timbuktu and Europe: trade, cities and Islam in 'medieval' West Africa / Timothy Insoll -- Medieval law / Susan Reynolds -- Rulers and justice, 1200-1500 / Magnus Ryan -- The King's Counsellors' two faces: a Portuguese perspective / Maria Joao Branco -- Fullness of power? Popes, bishops and the polity of the Church, 1215-1517 / James Burns -- A new legal cosmos: late Roman lawyers and the early medieval Church / Caroline Humfress -- Medieval monasticism / Janet L. Nelson -- Aspects of the early medieval peasant economy as revealed in the Polyptych of Prum / Yoshiki Morimoto -- Privilege in medieval societies from the twelfth to the fourteenth century, or: how the exception proves the rule / Alain Boureau -- What did the twelfth-century renaissance mean? / Jacques Le Goff -- The English parish and its clergy in the thirteenth century / C.H. Lawrence -- Everyday life and elites in the later Middle Ages: the civilized and the barbarian / Gabor Klaniczay -- On 1500 / Elizabeth A.R. Brown.
Abstract "This groundbreaking collection brings the Middle Ages to life, and conveys the distinctiveness of this diverse, constantly changing period."--Back cover.
General noteOriginally published: 2001.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN041530234X
ISBN9780415302340

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Joyner General Stacks CB351 .M43 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold