The medieval world
By: edited by Peter Linehan and Janet L. Nelson.
Contributors: Nelson, Janet L. 1942-; Linehan, Peter.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 745
Subjects: Civilization, Medieval.; Middle Ages.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction / Peter Linehan and Janet L. Nelson; title: 2. Courts in East and West / Jonathan Shepard; title: 3. At the Spanish frontier / Peter Linehan; title: 4. Muslims in Christian Iberia, 1000-1526 : varieties of Mudejar experience / David Nirenberg; title: 5. How many medieval Europes? : the "pagans" of Hungary and regional diversity in Christendom / Nora Berend; title: 6. Christians, barbarians and monsters : the European discovery of the world beyond Islam / Peter Jackson; title: 7. The Establishment of medieval Hermeticism / Charles Burnett; title: 8. What the Crusades meant to Europe / Christopher Tyerman; title: 9. The Crusades and the persecution of the Jews / J.A. Watt; title: 10. Strange eventful histories : the Middle Ages in the cinema / Stuart Airlie; title: 11. Political rituals and political imagination in the medieval West from the fourth century to the eleventh / Philippe Buc; title: 12. Modern mythologies of medieval chivalry / Dominique Barthélemy; title: 13. The unique favour of penance : the church and the people, c.800-c.1100 / Sarah Hamilton; title: 14. Gender negotiations in France during the Middle Ages : the literary evidence / Linda Paterson; title: 15. Symbolism and medieval religious thought / David d'Avray; title: 16. Sexuality in the Middle Ages / Ruth Mazo Karras; title: 17. Sin, crime and the pleasures of the flesh : the medieval Church judges sexual offences / James Brundage; title: 18. Through a glass darkly : seeing medieval heresy / Peter Biller; title: 19. The corpse in the Middle Ages : the problem of the division of the body / Agostino Paravicini Bagliani; title: 20. The Crucifixion and the censorship of art around 1300 / Paul Binski; title: 21. Space, culture and kingdoms in early medieval Europe / Paul Fouracre; title: 22. The outward look : Britain and beyond in medieval Irish literature / Máire Ní Mhaonaigh; title: 23. Powerul women in the early Middle Ages : queens and abbesses / Pauline Stafford; title: 24. Perceptions of an early medieval urban landscape / Cristina La Rocca; title: 25. Assembly politics in Western Europe from the eighth century to the twelfth / Timothy Reuter; title: 26. Beyond the comune : the Italian city-state and its inheritance / Mario Ascheri; title: 27. Timbuktu and Europe : trade, cities and Islam in "medieval" West Africa / Timothy Insoll; title: 28. Medieval Law / Susan Reynolds; title: 29. Rulers and justice, 1200-1500 / Magnus Ryan; title: 30. The king's counsellors' two faces : a Portuguese perspective / Maria João Branco; title: 31. Fullness of Power? : popes, bishops, and the polity of the Church, 1215-1517 / James Burns; title: 32. A new legal cosmos : late Roman lawyers and the early medieval church / Caroline Humfress; title: 33. Medieval monasticism / Janet L. Nelson; title: 34. Aspects of the early medieval peasant economy as revealed in the Polyptych of Prüm / Yoshiki Morimoto; title: 35. Privilege in medieval societies from the twelfth to the fourteenth century, or, How the exception proves the rule / Alain Boureau; title: 36. What did the twelfth-century Renaissance mean? / Jacques Le Goff; title: 37. The English parish and its clergy in the thirteenth century / C.H. Lawrence; title: 38. Everyday life and elites in the later Middle Ages : the civilised and the barbarian / Gábor Klaniczay; title: 39. On 1500 / Elizabeth A.R. Brown.