Medieval World

<p>Ranging from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu, the forty-four contributors to <i>The Medieval World</i> 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 '<em>ésprit</em> <em>laïque</em>' of the late middle ages, saints and martyrs, the papal chancery and scholastic thought. Chapters are arranged thematically within four parts:</p><p>1. Identities, Selves and Others </p><p>2. Beliefs, Social Values and Symbolic Order </p><p>3. Power and Power Structures </p><p>4. Elites, Organisations and Groups</p><p><em>The Medieval World</em> presents the reader with an authoritative account of original scholarship across the medieval millennium and provides essential reading for all students of the subject. </p> <p>List of illustrations</p><p>List of contributors</p><p>Abbreviations</p><p>Preface to the Second Edition</p><p>1. Introduction</p><p>Part I. Identities: Selves and Others </p><p>2. Courts in East and West, <i>Jonathan Shepard</i> </p><p>3. At the Spanish Frontier, <i>Peter Linehan</i> </p><p>4. Muslims in Christian Iberia, 1000-1526, <i>David Nirenberg</i> </p><p>5. How many Medieval Europes? The 'pagans' of Hungary and regional diversity in Christendom, <i>Nora Berend</i> </p><p>6. Christians, Barbarians and Monsters. The European discovery of the world beyond Islam, <i>Peter Jackson</i> </p><p>7. The Empire of Byzantium, <i>Averil Cameron</i> </p><p>8. The Establishment of Medieval Hermeticism, <i>Charles Burnett</i> </p><p>9. What the Crusades meant to Europe, <i>Christopher Tyerman</i> </p><p>10. The Crusades and the Persecution of the Jews, <i>J. A. Watt</i> </p><p>11. <i>Imagines Historiarum</i>: Visions of the Past in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, <i>Rosa Rodriguez Porto</i></p><p>12. Strange Eventful Histories: the Middle Ages in the cinema, <i>Stuart Airlie</i> </p><p>II. Beliefs, Social Values and Symbolic Order </p><p>13. Political Rituals and Political Imagination in the Medieval West from the 4th Century to the 12th, <i>Philippe Buc</i> </p><p>14. Modern Mythologies of Medieval Chivalry, <i>Dominique Barthélemy</i> </p><p>15. The Unique Favour of Penance: the Church and the People, <i>c.</i>800-<i>c.</i>1100, <i>Sarah Hamilton</i> </p><p>16. Gender Negotiations in France during the central Middle Ages: the literary evidence, <i>Linda Paterson</i> </p><p>17. Symbolism and medieval religious thought, <i>David d'Avray</i> </p><p>18. Sexuality in the Middle Ages, <i>Ruth Mazo Karras</i> </p><p>19. Sin, Crime and the Pleasures of the Flesh: the medieval Church judges sexual offences, <i>James Brundage</i> </p><p>20. Through a Glass Darkly: seeing medieval heresy, <i>Peter Biller</i> </p><p>21. <i>À la recherché de l’esprit laïque</i> in the late middle ages, <i>Roberto Lambertini </i></p><p>22. Saints and Martyrs in Late Medieval Religious Culture, <i>Carl Watkins </i></p><p>23. The Corpse in the Middle Ages: the problem of the division of the body, <i>Agostino Paravicini Bagliani</i> </p><p>24. The Crucifixion and the Censorship of Art around 1300, <i>Paul Binski</i> </p><p>III. Power and Power-structures </p><p>25. Space, Culture and Kingdoms in Early Medieval Europe, <i>Paul Fouracre</i> </p><p>26. The Outward Look: Britain and beyond in medieval Irish literature, <i>Máire Ní Mhaonaigh</i> </p><p>27. Powerful Women in the early Middle Ages: queens and abbesses, <i>Pauline Stafford</i> </p><p>28. Perceptions of an Early Medieval Urban Landscape, <i>Cristina La Rocca</i> </p><p>29. Assembly Politics in Western Europe from the Eighth Century to the Twelfth, <i>Timothy Reuter</i> </p><p>30. Beyond the <i>Comune</i>: the Italian city-state and its inheritance, <i>Mario Ascheri</i> </p><p>31. Timbuktu and Europe: trade, cities and Islam in 'medieval' West Africa, <i>Timothy Insoll</i> </p><p>32. Medieval Law, <i>Susan Reynolds</i> </p><p>33. Rulers and Justice, 1200-1500, <i>Magnus Ryan</i> </p><p>34. The King's Counsellors' Two Faces: a Portuguese perspective, <i>Maria João Branco</i> </p><p>35. Fullness of Power? Popes, bishops, and the polity of the Church, 1215-1517, <i>James Burns</i></p><p>36. The papal chancery: Avignon and beyond, <i>Patrick Zutshi</i></p><p>IV. Elites, Organisations and Groups </p><p>37. A New Legal Cosmos: late Roman Lawyers and the early medieval Church, <i>Caroline Humfress</i> </p><p>38. Medieval Monasticism, <i>Janet L. Nelson</i> </p><p>39. Aspects of the Early Medieval Peasant Economy as revealed in the Polyptych of Prüm, <i>Yoshiki Morimoto</i> </p><p>40. Privilege in Medieval Societies from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Century, or: How the exception proves the rule, <i>Alain Boureau</i> </p><p>41. What did the Twelfth-Century Renaissance <i>Mean</i>?, <i>Jacques Le Goff</i></p><p>42. The English Parish and its Clergy in the Thirteenth Century, <i>C. H. Lawrence</i> </p><p>43. Everyday Life and Elites in the later Middle Ages: the civilised and the barbarian, <i>Gabor Klaniczay</i> </p><p>44. Scholastic Thought in Humanist Guise: François Hotman’s Ancient French Constitution, <i>George Garnett</i></p><p>45. On 1500, <i>Elizabeth A.R. Brown</i></p><p><i>Elizabeth A.R.Brown</i></p>