Beatrice's last smile : a new history of the Middle Ages / Mark Gregory Pegg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pegg, Mark Gregory, 1963- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle Ages--Sources.

Middle Ages.

Civilization, Medieval.

Social history--Medieval, 500-1500.

Social history.

Europe, Western--Historiography.

Europe, Western.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (521 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

'Beatrice's Last Smile' is a sweeping narrative history of the medieval west from the beginning of the third century to the beginning of the sixteenth. This book focuses on slow formation of Latin Christendom over a millennium in the aftermath of the disintegration of the western Roman Empire.

Contents:

Cover

Beatrice's Last Smile

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

List of Maps

I What God?

II Swan Songs

III The Flutter of Blackbirds

IV Mad Poets

V An Everlasting Star

VI The Harrying of the Heathen

VII Hermits in Mail

VIII Uncle, What Troubles You?

IX Love Moves the Sun and All the Other Stars

X Only Death Wakes Us from Dreaming

Acknowledgments

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-769029-7

0-19-939282-X

0-19-939281-1

OCLC:

1351893473