Medieval Thought and Historiography

<p>Collected Studies CS1065</p><p></p><p>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.</p>