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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Linehan, Peter, editor.

Nelson, Janet L. (Janet Laughland), 1942- editor.

Costambeys, Marios, editor.

Series:

Routledge worlds.

The Routledge worlds

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Medieval.

Middle Ages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1,047 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

"Ranging from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu, the forty-four contributors to The Medieval World seek to bring the Middle Ages to life, offering definitive appraisals of the distinctive features of the period"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of illustrations

List of contributors

Abbreviations

Preface to the Second Edition

1 Introduction

Part I: Identities: selves and others

2 Courts in East and West

3 At the Spanish frontier

4 Muslims in Christian Iberia, 1000-1526: Varieties of Mudejar experience

5 How many medieval Europes? The 'pagans' of Hungary and regional diversity in Christendom

6 Christians, barbarians and monsters: The European discovery of the world beyond Islam

7 The Empire of Byzantium

8 The establishment of medieval hermeticism

9 What the Crusades meant to Europe

10 The Crusades and the persecution of the Jews

11 Imagines historiarum: Visions of the past in medieval illuminated manuscripts

12 Strange eventful histories: The Middle Ages in the cinema

Part II: Beliefs, social values and symbolic order

13 Political rituals and political imagination in the medieval west from the fourth century to the eleventh

14 Modern mythologies of medieval chivalry

15 The unique favour of penance: The church and the people c.800-c.1100

16 Gender negotiations in France during the central Middle Ages: The literary evidence

17 Symbolism and medieval religious thought

18 Sexuality in the Middle Ages

19 Sin, crime and the pleasures of the flesh: The medieval church judges sexual offences

20 Through a glass darkly: Seeing medieval heresy

21 À la recherche de l'ésprit laïque in the late Middle Ages

22 Saints and martyrs in late medieval religious culture

23 The corpse in the Middle Ages: The problem of the division of the body

24 The crucifixion and the censorship of art around 1300

Part III: Power and power structures

25 Space, culture and kingdoms in early medieval Europe.

26 The outward look: Britain and beyond in medieval Irish literature

27 Powerful women in the early Middle Ages: Queens and abbesses

28 Perceptions of an early medieval urban landscape

29 Assembly politics in Western Europe from the eighth century to the twelfth

30 Beyond the comune: The Italian city-state and the problem of definition

31 Trans-Saharan trade and Islam: Great states and urban centres in the medieval West African Sahel

32 Medieval law

33 Rulers and justice, 1200-1500

34 The king's counsellors' two faces: A Portuguese perspective

35 Fullness of power? Popes, bishops and the polity of the Church 1215-1517

36 The papal chancery: Avignon and beyond

Part IV: Elites, organisations and groups

37 A new legal cosmos: Late Roman lawyers and the early medieval church

38 Medieval monasticism

39 Aspects of the early medieval peasant economy as revealed in the polyptych of Prüm

40 Privilege in medieval societies from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, or: How the exception proves the rule

41 What did the Twelfth-Century Renaissance mean?

42 The English parish and its clergy in the thirteenth century

43 Everyday life and elites in the later Middle Ages: The civilised and the barbarian

44 Scholastic thought in humanist guise: François Hotman's ancient French constitution

45 On 1500

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-10251-X

1-351-59229-7

1-351-59228-9

9781315102511

OCLC:

1005687936