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Title The medieval world / edited by Peter Linehan, Janet L. Nelson and Marios Costambeys
Edition Second edition
Published London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge worlds
Routledge worlds.
Contents Part, I Identities -- Selves and Others -- chapter One Introduction -- chapter Two Courts in East and West / Jonathan Shepard -- chapter Three At the Spanish frontier 1 / Peter Linehan -- chapter Four Muslims in Christian Iberia, 1000-1526 -- Varieties of Mudejar experience 1 / David Nirenberg -- chapter Five How many medieval Europes? The 'Pagans' of Hungary and Regional Diversity in Christendom / Nora Berend -- chapter Six Christians, barbarians and monsters -- The European discovery of the world beyond Islam / Peter Jackson -- chapter Seven The empire of Byzantium / Averil Cameron -- chapter Eight The establishment of medieval hermeticism / Charles Burnett -- chapter Nine What the crusades meant to Europe / Christopher Tyerman -- chapter Ten The crusades and the persecution of the Jews / J. A. Watt -- chapter Eleven Imagines historiarum -- Visions of the past in medieval illuminated manuscripts 1 / Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto -- chapter Twelve Strange eventful histories -- The middle ages in the cinema / Stuart Airlie -- part, II Beliefs, social values and symbolic order -- chapter Thirteen Political rituals and political imagination in the medieval west from the fourth century to the eleventh 1 / Philippe Buc -- chapter Fourteen Modern mythologies of medieval chivalry / Dominique Barthélemy -- chapter Fifteen The unique favour of penance -- The church and the people c.800-c.1100 / Sarah Hamilton -- chapter Sixteen Gender negotiations in France during the central middle ages -- The literary evidence / Linda Paterson -- chapter Seventeen Symbolism and medieval religious thought / David d'Avray -- chapter Eighteen Sexuality in the middle ages / Ruth Mazo Karras -- chapter Nineteen Sin, crime and the pleasures of the flesh -- The medieval church judges sexual offences / James Brundage -- chapter Twenty Through a glass darkly -- Seeing medieval heresy / Peter Biller -- chapter Twenty-One À la recherchE de l'ésprit laïque in the late middle ages / Roberto Lambertini -- chapter Twenty-Two Saints and martyrs in late medieval religious culture / Carl Watkins -- chapter Twenty-Three The corpse in the middle ages -- The problem of the division of the body / Agostino Paravicini Bagliani -- chapter Twenty-Four The crucifixion and the censorship of art around 1300 / Paul Binski -- part, III Power and power structures -- chapter Twenty-Five Space, culture and kingdoms in early medieval Europe / Paul Fouracre -- chapter Twenty-Six The outward look -- Britain and beyond in medieval Irish literature / Máire Ní Mhaonaigh -- chapter Twenty-Seven Powerful women in the early middle ages -- Queens and abbesses / Pauline Stafford -- chapter Twenty-Eight Perceptions of an early medieval urban landscape / Cristina La Rocca -- chapter Twenty-Nine Assembly politics in western Europe from the eighth century to the twelfth / Timothy Reuter -- chapter Thirty Beyond the comune -- The Italian city-state and the problem of definition 1 / Mario Ascheri -- chapter Thirty-One Trans-Saharan trade and Islam -- Great states and urban centres in the medieval West African Sahel / Timothy Insoll -- chapter Thirty-Two Medieval law / Susan Reynolds -- chapter Thirty-Three Rulers and justice, 1200-1500 / Magnus Ryan -- chapter Thirty-Four The king's counsellors' two faces -- A Portuguese perspective / Maria João Violante Branco -- chapter Thirty-Five Fullness of power? Popes, bishops and the polity of the church 1215-1517 / James Burns -- chapter Thirty-Six The papal chancery -- Avignon and beyond 1 / Patrick Zutshi -- part, IV Elites, organisations and groups -- chapter Thirty-Seven A new legal cosmos -- Late Roman lawyers and the early medieval church / Caroline Humfress -- chapter Thirty-Eight Medieval monasticism / Janet L. Nelson -- chapter Thirty-Nine Aspects of the early medieval peasant economy as revealed in the polyptych of Prüm 1 / Yoshiki Morimoto -- chapter Forty Privilege in medieval societies from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, or: How the exception proves the rule / Alain Boureau -- chapter Forty-One What did the twelfth-century renaissance mean? / Jacques Le Goff -- chapter Forty-Two The English parish and its clergy in the thirteenth century / C. H. Lawrence -- chapter Forty-Three Everyday life and elites in the later middle ages -- The civilised and the barbarian / Gábor Klaniczay -- chapter Forty-Four Scholastic thought in humanist guise -- François Hotman's ancient French constitution / George Garnett -- chapter Forty-Five On 1500 / Elizabeth A. R. Brown
Summary "Ranging from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu, the forty-four contributors to The Medieval World seek to bring the Middle Ages to life, offering definitive appraisals of the distinctive features of the period"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 14, 2018)
Subject Civilization, Medieval.
Middle Ages.
HISTORY -- World.
Civilization, Medieval
Middle Ages
Genre/Form handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Form Electronic book
Author Linehan, Peter, editor.
Nelson, Janet L. (Janet Laughland), 1942- editor.
Costambeys, Marios, editor.
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