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A companion to the Medieval world / edited by Carol Lansing and Edward D. English.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Wiley Blackwell companions to European history.
- Wiley-Blackwell companions to European history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle Ages.
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (598 p.)
- Edition:
- Paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing on the expertise of 26 distinguished scholars, this important volume covers the major issues in the study of medieval Europe, highlighting the significant impact the time period had on cultural forms and institutions central to European identity. Examines changing approaches to the study of medieval Europe, its periodization, and central themesIncludes coverage of important questions such as identity and the self, sexuality and gender, emotionality and ethnicity, as well as more traditional topics such as economic and demographic expansion; kingship; and the rise of
- Contents:
- A COMPANION TO THE MEDIEVAL WORLD; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Part I: The Middle Ages; Chapter One: The Idea of a Middle Ages; Part II: Early Medieval Foundations; Chapter Two: Economies and Societies in Early Medieval Western Europe; Chapter Three: Politics and Power; Chapter Four: Religious Culture and the Power of Tradition in the Early Medieval West; Part III: Populations and the Economy; Chapter Five: Economic Takeoff and the Rise of Markets; Chapter Six: Rural Families in Medieval Europe; Chapter Seven: Marriage in Medieval Latin Christendom; Chapter Eight: Gender and Sexuality
- Chapter Nine: Society, Elite Families, and Politics in Late Medieval Italian CitiesPart IV: Religious Culture; Chapter Ten: New Religious Movements and Reform; Chapter Eleven: Monastic and Mendicant Communities; Chapter Twelve: Hospitals in the Middle Ages; Chapter Thirteen: Popular Belief and Heresy; Chapter Fourteen: Jews in the Middle Ages; Chapter Fifteen: Muslims in Medieval Europe; Part V: Politics and Power; Chapter Sixteen: Conflict Resolution and Legal Systems; Chapter Seventeen: Medieval Rulers and Political Ideology; Chapter Eighteen: Papal Monarchy
- Chapter Nineteen: Urban Historical Geography and the Writing of Late Medieval Urban HistoryChapter Twenty: Bureaucracy and Literacy; Chapter Twenty-one: The Practice of War; Chapter Twenty-two: Expansion and the Crusades; Part VI: Technologies and Culture; Chapter Twenty-three: Romanesque and Gothic Church Architecture; Chapter Twenty-four: Aristocratic Culture: Kinship, Chivalry, and Court Culture; Chapter Twenty-five: Philosophy and Humanism; Chapter Twenty-six: Philosophy and Theology in the Universities; Part VII: The European Middle Ages
- Chapter Twenty-seven: Medieval Europe in World HistoryIndex
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 16, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 9786612548260
- 9781282548268
- 1282548263
- 9781780341590
- 1780341598
- 9781118499467
- 1118499468
- 9781405177313
- 1405177314
- 9781444324198
- 1444324195
- 9781444324204
- 1444324209
- OCLC:
- 587385752
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