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Author Anderson, Roberta

Title Medieval Worlds : a Sourcebook
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (366 pages)
Contents Cover; MEDIEVAL WORLDS: A SOURCE BOOK; Copyright; CONTENTS; DOCUMENTS; WELLS CATHEDRAL: A MEDIEVAL WORLD (PLATES); ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; THE EDITORS; GLOSSARY; Abbreviations; 1 INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL WORLDS; 2 THE MONASTIC WORLD; 3 THE WORLD OF THE PAPACY; 4 THE WORLD OF THE CRUSADES; 5 THE WORLD OF THE FEUDAL KINGDOMS; 6 THE ENGLISH POLITICAL WORLD; 7 THE WORLD OF THE OUTSIDER; 8 THE WORLD OF WOMEN; 9 THE WORLD OF THE MIND; 10 THE WORLD OF THE COUNTRYSIDE; 11 THE WORLD OF THE TOWN; 12 THE MEDIEVAL WORLD SELF-OBSERVED; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary Complete with introductions, full commentary, glossary, and a guide to further reading, Medieval Worlds is a comprehensive sourcebook for the study of Western Europe from the fifth to the fifteenth century. Drawing on a wide range of documents, from chronicles, legal, state, and church documents, to biographies, poems, and letters from all over Europe, the authors expertly illustrate to the reader the unity - and complexity - of the medieval world. Amongst many more, central issues discussed include:the diverse world of monasteriesthe Papacy<LI
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Subject Civilization, Medieval -- Sources
Crusades -- Sources
Cities and towns, Medieval -- Sources
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Cities and towns, Medieval
Civilization, Medieval
Crusades
Social conditions
SUBJECT Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492 -- Sources
Europe -- Church history -- 600-1500 -- Sources
Subject Europe
Genre/Form Church history
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Bellenger, Dominic
ISBN 9781136405136
1136405135