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A companion to the medieval world
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"In this volume 26 distinguished scholars examine major issues in the study of medieval Europe. Much recent scholarship has sought to identify and strip away later intellectual categories and seek ...
"In this volume 26 distinguished scholars examine major issues in the study of medieval Europe. Much recent scholarship has sought to identify and strip away later intellectual categories and seek a fresh understanding of medieval culture and society on its own terms. That approach is reflected in the articles in this volume on questions such as the end of late antiquity, reform, the crusades, the family, chivalric culture, Romanesque and Gothic architecture, Christianization, and heresy. It addresses key themes such as sexuality, gender, and power and class. More traditional topics are also explored including economic and demographic expansion and change, urban politics, kingship, hospitals, education, and scholasticism. The volume is vital for European specialists and an important resource for comparative world history."--Publisher's description.
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- Creator
- edited by Carol Lansing and Edward D. English
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013
- Physical Details
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- xii, 584 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 1282548263, 9786612548260, 1405177314, 9781118425121, 140510922X, 111842512X, 1118499468, 1780341598, 1444324195, 1444324209
- OCLC
- ocn957699608, ocn593355968, ocn809123087
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reprint. Originally published: 2009.
- Pt. I : the Middle Ages -- The idea of a Middle Ages -- Pt. II : early Medieval foundations -- Economics and societies in early Medieval Western Europe -- Politics and power -- Religious culture and the power of tradition in the early Medieval West -- Pt. III : populations and the economy -- Economic takeoff and the rise of markets -- Rural families in Medieval Europe -- Marriage in Medieval Latin Christendom -- Gender and sexuality -- Society, elite families, and politics in late Medieval Italian cities -- Pt. IV : religious culture -- New religious movements and reform -- Monastic and mendicant communities -- Hospitals in the Middle Ages -- Popular belief and heresy -- Jews in the Middle Ages -- Muslims in Medieval Europe -- Pt. V : politics and power -- Conflict resolution and legal systems -- Medieval rulers and political ideology -- Papal monarchy -- Urban historical geography and the writing of late Medieval urban history -- Bureaucracy and literacy -- The practice of war -- Expansion and the crusades -- Pt. VI : technologies and culture -- Romanesque and gothic church architecture -- Aristocratic culture : kinship, chivalry, and court culture -- Philosophy and humanism -- Philosophy and theology in the universities -- Pt. VII : the European Middle Ages -- Medieval Europe in world history