The Medieval World, Volume 10

Peter Linehan, Janet Laughland Nelson

Psychology Press, 2003 - History - 745 pages

This groundbreaking collection brings the Middle Ages to life and conveys the distinctiveness of this diverse, constantly changing period. Thirty-eight scholars bring together one medieval world from many disparate worlds, from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu.

This extraordinary set of reconstructions presents the reader with a vivid re-drawing of the medieval past, offering fresh appraisals of the evidence and modern historical writing.

Chapters are thematically linked in four sections:

• identities
• beliefs, social values and symbolic order
• power and power-structures
• elites, organizations and groups.

Packed full of original scholarship, The Medieval World is essential reading for anyone studying medieval history.

Contents

• Courts in East and West: 14
• At the Spanish Frontier: 39
• varieties of Mudejar: 60
• How many Medieval Europes? The pagans of Hungary and regional: 77
• the European discovery of: 93
• The Establishment of Medieval Hermeticism: 111
• What the Crusades meant to Europe: 131
• The Crusades and the Persecution of the Jews: 146
• the Middle Ages in the cinema: 163
• Political Rituals and Political Imagination in the Medieval West from: 189
• Modern Mythologies of Medieval Chivalry: 214
• the Church and the people: 229
• Symbolism and Medieval Religious Thought: 267
• Sexuality in the Middle Ages: 279
• the medieval Church: 294
• seeing medieval heresy: 308
• the problem of the division of: 327
• The Crucifixion and the Censorship of Art around 1300: 342
• Space Culture and Kingdoms in Early Medieval Europe: 366
• Britain and beyond in medieval Irish literature: 381
• queens and abbesses: 398
• Perceptions of an Early Medieval Urban Landscape: 416
• Assembly Politics in Western Europe from the Eighth Century: 432
• the Italian citystate and its inheritance: 451
• trade cities and Islam in medieval West: 469
• Medieval Law: 485
• Rulers and Justice 12001500: 503
• a Portuguese perspective: 518
• Fullness of Power? Popes bishops and the polity of the Church: 534
• late Roman lawyers and the early medieval: 557
• Medieval Monasticism: 576
• Aspects of the Early Medieval Peasant Economy as revealed in: 605
• Privilege in Medieval Societies from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth: 621
• What did the TwelfthCentury Renaissance Mean?: 635
• The English Parish and its Clergy in the Thirteenth Century: 648
• the civilised: 671
• On 1500: 691
• Index: 711

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Medieval World, Volume 10; History/Medieval studies; The Routledge Worlds Series; The medieval world, Janet Laughland Nelson
• Editors: Peter Linehan, Janet Laughland Nelson
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 2003
• ISBN: 041530234X, 9780415302340
• Length: 745 pages
• Subjects: History / Europe / Medieval; History / General; History / World