Medieval Thought and Historiography
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781138714816
Subjects: Middle ages, history; Civilization, medieval
Description: We assume that we have a clear understanding of how people in the Middle Ages thought and which attitudes they struck but in reality this is a subject of enormous complexity of which conclusions can only be drawn via painstaking archival research and decades of study. Giles Constable has spent a career analysing these forces and impulses and this new collection draws together his major findings on a host of topics including frontiers, metaphors, religious life and spirituality, and concepts of political theory.