ABSTRACT
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.
This second edition includes six additional chapters, covering the Byzantine empire, illuminated manuscripts, the 'ésprit laïque' of the late middle ages, saints and martyrs, the papal chancery and scholastic thought. Chapters are arranged thematically within four parts:
1. Identities, Selves and Others
2. Beliefs, Social Values and Symbolic Order
3. Power and Power Structures
4. Elites, Organisations and Groups
The Medieval World presents the reader with an authoritative account of original scholarship across the medieval millennium and provides essential reading for all students of the subject.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|211 pages
Identities
chapter Six|18 pages
Christians, barbarians and monsters
chapter Eleven|18 pages
Imagines historiarum
part II|216 pages
Beliefs, social values and symbolic order
chapter Sixteen|20 pages
Gender negotiations in France during the central middle ages
chapter Nineteen|16 pages
Sin, crime and the pleasures of the flesh
part III|213 pages
Power and power structures
chapter Twenty-Nine|19 pages
Assembly politics in western Europe from the eighth century to the twelfth
chapter Thirty-One|19 pages
Trans-Saharan trade and Islam
chapter Thirty-Five|19 pages
Fullness of power? Popes, bishops and the polity of the church 1215–1517
part IV|180 pages
Elites, organisations and groups
