The Medieval World

Book Overview

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.

This second edition includes six additional chapters, covering the Byzantine empire, illuminated manuscripts, the ' sprit la que' of the late middle ages, saints and martyrs, the papal chancery and scholastic thought. Chapters are arranged thematically within four parts:

1. Identities, Selves and Others

2. Beliefs, Social Values and Symbolic Order

3. Power and Power Structures

4. Elites, Organisations and Groups

The Medieval World presents the reader with an authoritative account of original scholarship across the medieval millennium and provides essential reading for all students of the subject.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138848697
• ISBN13: 9781138848696
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 876 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.8" x 9.7"

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Gathers a wealth of informed and informative essays

Expertly compiled and co-edited by Peter Linehan (Fellow and Dean of St. John's College, Cambridge, England) and Janet L. Nelson (Professor of Medieval History at King's College, London, England), The Medieval World gathers a wealth of informed and informative essays contributed from a wide and diverse variety of educated and articulate scholars concerning such topics as identity, "What the Crusades meant to Europe"; power and power structures; "The King's Counsellors' two Faces: a Portuguese perspective"; elites, organizations, and groups, and much, much more. A wide-ranging and erudite, 745-page compendium, The Medieval World is written and recommended for college-level Medieval Studies reading lists and World History reference shelves.