Life and thought in the early Middle Ages / edited by Robert S. Hoyt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoyt, Robert S. (Robert Stuart)

Series:

Minnesota paperbacks ; MP 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle Ages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Life and thought in the Middle Ages.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1968, c1967]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The period of the early Middle Ages - from the fourth to the eleventh centuries - used to be commonly called "the dark ages." Now that term has been discarded by scholars, who reject its implications as they recognize increasingly, the historical importan

Contents:

Introduction / Robert S. Hoyt

The barbarian kings as lawgivers and judges / Katherine Fischer Drew

Of towns and trade / Robert S. Lopez

The two levels of feudalism / Joseph R. Strayer

The image of Christ in the early Middle Ages / Adolf Katzenellenbogen

The life of the silent majority / Lynn White, Jr

Beowulf and Bede / John C. McGalliard

Viking

Tunnit

Eskimo / T.J. Oleson

The Church, reform, and renaissance in the early Middle Ages / Karl F. Morrison.

Notes:

"The chapters of this volume originated as public lectures given by the authors in the annual Spring Lecture Series, 1963, sponsored by the General Extension Division of the University of Minnesota."

Includes bibliographical footnotes and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5791-2

OCLC:

476161671