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The culture of Christendom : essays in medieval history in in commemoration of Denis L.T. Bethell / edited by Marc Anthony Meyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europe--History--476-1492.
- Europe.
- Europe--Church history--600-1500.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Rio Grande : Hambledon Press, 1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Culture of Christendom brings together original essays by distinguished historians on medieval European history. Their range reflects the breadth of Denis Bethell's own interests, which though centred on the high medieval church encompassed the culture of the middle ages as a whole.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Denis L.T. Bethell (1934-1981) Remembered; List of Contributors; Abbreviations; 1 The Map of the Barbarian Invasions: A Longer Look; 2 Letters and Letter-Collections from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages: The Prose Works of Avitus of Vienne; 3 A Sense of Wonder: Gregory of Tours, Medicine and Science; 4 Magic and Marriage in Ninth-Century Francia: Lothar, Hincmar-and Susanna; 5 The Queen's 'Demesne' in Later Anglo-Saxon England; 6 Christchurch's Sisters and Brothers: An Edition and Discussion of Canterbury Obituary Lists
- 7 Lanfranc, Anselm and the School of Bec: In Search of the Students of Bec8 William II, Henry I and the Church; 9 'The Whole World a Hermitage': Ascetic Renewal and the Crisis of Western Monasticism; 10 Odo of Deuil, the Second Crusade and the Monastery of Saint-Denis; 11 The Quest for Sir John Mandeville; 12 The Debate over Nobility: Dante, Nicholas Upton and Bartolus; 13 'Linguistic Pluralism' in Medieval Hungary; 14 Jewish Anti-Christianism from the Crusades to the Reformation; 15 Creative Biography
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786613271396
- 9781283271394
- 1283271397
- 9780826467843
- 0826467849
- OCLC:
- 654809148
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