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David
Luscombe, Jonathan Riley-Smith, eds.
The New Cambridge
Medieval History: Volume 4, c.1024-c.1198, Part 1. Cambridge University Press,
September 2004.
900pp.
Hardback.
ISBN 0521414105.
Publisher's
recommended price ca. £95.00
The
fourth volume of the New Cambridge
Medieval History covers the eleventh and twelfth centuries,
which comprised perhaps the most dynamic period in the European middle
ages. This is a history of Europe, but the continent is interpreted
widely to include the Near East and North Africa as well. The volume is
divided into two parts of which this, the first, deals with themes,
ecclesiastical and secular, and major developments in an age marked by
the expansion of population, agriculture, trade, towns and the
frontiers of western society; by a radical reform of the structure and
institutions of the western church, and by fundamental changes in
relationships with the eastern churches, Byzantium, Islam and the Jews;
by the appearance of new kingdoms and states, and by the development of
crusades, knighthood and law, Latin and vernacular literature,
Romanesque and Gothic art and architecture, heresies and the scholastic
movement.
Contributors: Jonathan Riley-Smith, David Luscombe, Robert Fossier,
Derek Keene, Susan Reynolds, Peter Landau, Jean Flori, Ernst-Dieter
Hehl, H. E. J. Cowdrey, I. S. Robinson, Giles Constable, Bernard
Hamilton, Jean Richard, Hugh Kennedy. Robert Chazan, Jan Ziolkowski,
Patrick Kidson.
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