Peter
Linehan, Janet L. Nelson, eds.
The Medieval World.
London:
Routledge,
2001.
768pp.
Publisher's
recommended price
Hardback ISBN
0415181518 £120.00
Paperback ISBN 041530234X
This
groundbreaking
collection brings the Middle Ages to life and conveys the
distinctiveness
of this diverse, constantly changing period. From the contributions of
38 scholars, one medieval world from Connacht to Constantinople and
from
Tynemouth to Timbuktu emerges from many disparate worlds. This
extraordinary
set of reconstructions presents the reader with the future 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,
organisations
and groups. This remarkable volume is packed full of original
scholarship
and is set to become essential reading for anyone studying medieval
history.
Contents:
1. Introduction
I.
Identities:
Selves and Others 2. Courts in East and West, Jonathan
Shepard;
3. At the Spanish Frontier, Peter Linehan; 4. Muslims in
Christian
Iberia, 1000-1526, David Nirenberg; 5. How many Medieval
Europes?
The 'pagans' of Hungary and regional diversity in Christendom, Nora
Berend; 6. Christians, Barbarians and Monsters. The European
discovery
of the world beyond Islam, Peter Jackson; 7. The Establishment
of
Medieval Hermeticism, Charles Burnett; 8. What the Crusades
meant
to Europe, Christopher Tyerman; 9. The Crusades and the
Persecution
of Jews, Jack Watt; 10. Strange Eventful Histories; the Middle
Ages
in the cinema, Stuart Airlie.
II.
Beliefs,
Social Values and Symbolic Order 11. Political Rituals and
Political
Imagination in the Medieval West from the 4th Century to the 12th,
Philippe Buc; 12. Modern Mythologies of Medieval Chivalry,
Dominique
Barthélemy; 13. The Unique Favour of Penance: the Church and
the People, c.800-c.1100, Sarah Hamilton; 14. Gender
Negotiations
in France during the Middle Ages; the literary evidence, Linda
Paterson;
15. Symbolism and medieval religious thought, David d'Avray;
16. Sexuality
in the Middle Ages, Ruth Mazo Karras; 17. Sin, Crime and the
Pleasures
of the Flesh; the medieval Church judges sexual offences, James
Brundage;
18. Through a Glass Darkly: seeing medieval heresy, Peter
Biller;
19. The Corpse in the Middle Ages: the problem of the division of
the
body, Agostino Paravicini Bagliani; 20. The Crucifixion and the
Censorship of Art around 1300, Paul Binski.
III.
Power
and Power-structures 21. Space, Culture and Kingdoms in Early
Medieval
Europe, Paul Fouracre; 22. The Outward Look: Britain and Beyond
in medieval Irish literature, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh; 23.
Powerul Women in the early Middle Ages; queens and abbesses,
Pauline
Stafford; 24. Perceptions of an Early Medieval Urban Landscape,
Christina La Rocca; 25. Assembly Politics in Western Europe from
the
8th Century to the 12th, Timothy Reuter; 26. Beyond the Comune:
the Italian city-state and its inheritance, Mario Ascheri; 27. Timbuktu
and Europe: trade, cities and Islam in 'medieval' West Africa,
Timothy
Insoll; 28. Medieval Law, Susan Reynolds; 29. Rulers and
Justice,
1200-1500, Magnus Ryan; 30. The King's Counsellors' Two Faces:
a
Portuguese perspective, Maria João Branco; 31. Fullness
of
Power? Popes, bishops, and the polity of the Church 1215-1517,
James
Burns.
IV.
Elites,
Organisations and Groups 32. A new legal cosmos: Late Roman
Lawyers
and the Early Medieval Church, Caroline Humfress; 33. Medieval
Monasticism,
Janet L. Nelson; 34. Aspects of the Early Medieval Peasant Economy
as
revealed in the Polyptych of Prüm, Yoshiki Morimoto; 35. Privilege
in Medieval Societies from the twelfth to the fourteenth century, or:
How
the exception proves the rule, Alain Boureau; 36. What does the
Twelfth-Century Renaissance mean?, Jacques Le Goff; 37. The
English
Parish and its Clergy in the Thirteenth Century, C.H.Lawrence; 38. Everyday
Life and Elites in the later Middle Ages: the civilised and the
barbarian,
Gabor Klaniczay; 39. On 1500, Elizabeth A.R.Brown.
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