Medieval Worlds

<p>Complete with introductions full commentary glossary and a guide to further reading <em>Medieval Worlds</em> is a comprehensive sourcebook for the study of Western Europe from the fifth to the fifteenth century.</p><p>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.</p><p>Amongst many more central issues discussed include:</p><ul> <li>the diverse world of monasteries</li> <li>the Papacy</li> <li>the Crusades</li> <li>women</li> <li>the roles of the town and countryside.</li> </ul><p><em>Medieval Worlds</em> presents the reader with a view of the medieval era as it was: one of immense diversity with openness to new ideas and outreach in areas from technology to natural philosophy. </p>