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David
Luscombe, Jonathan Riley-Smith, eds.
The New Cambridge
Medieval History: Volume 4, c.1024-c.1198, Part 2.
Cambridge University Press, October 2004.
796pp.
Hardback.
ISBN 0521414113.
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. The volume is divided
into two parts of which this, the second, deals with the course of
events - ecclesiastical and secular - and major developments in an age
marked by the transformation of the position of the papacy in a process
fuelled by a radical reformation of the church, the decline of the
western and eastern empires, the rise of western kingdoms and Italian
elites, and the development of governmental structures, the beginnings
of the recovery of Spain from the Moors and the establishment of
western settlements in the eastern Mediterranean region in the wake of
the crusades.
Contributors: Jonathan Riley-Smith, David Luscombe, Uta-Renate
Blumenthal, Hanna Vollrath, Giovanni Tabacco, Graham Loud, Constance
Bouchard, Simon Barton, Marjorie Chibnall, Michael Angold, Martin
Dimnik, Jerzy Wyrozumski, Peter Sawyer, Nora Berend, I. S. Robinson,
Benjamin Arnold, Graham Loud, Peter Linehan, John W. Baldwin, Michel
Bur, Thomas K. Keefe, Geoffrey Barrow, Paul Magdalino, Hans Mayer,
Michael Brett, Stephen Humphreys.
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