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 'ésprit laïque' 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.
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Muslims in Christian Iberia, 1000-1526: varieties of Mudejar experience
págs. 55-71
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Christians, barbarians and monsters: the European discovery of the world beyond Islam
págs. 88-105
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Imagines historiarum: visions of the past in medieval illuminated manuscripts
págs. 177-194
Strange eventful histories: the Middle Ages in the cinema
Stuart Airlie
págs. 195-219
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págs. 249-263
The unique favour of penance: the church and the people c.800-c. 1100
Sarah Hamilton
págs. 264-280
Gender negotiations in France during the central Middle Ages: the literary evidence
págs. 281-300
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Sin, crime and the pleasures of the flesh: the medieval church
págs. 329-344
Through a glass darkly: seeing medieval heresy
págs. 345-367
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The corpse in the Middle Ages: the problem of the division of the body
págs. 403-417
págs. 418-436
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The outward look: Britain and beyond in medieval Irish literature
págs. 456-472
Powerful women in the early Middle Ages: Queens and abbesses
Pauline Stafford
págs. 473-490
págs. 491-510
págs. 511-529
Beyond the comune: the Italian city-state and the problem of definition
págs. 530-548
Trans-Saharan trade and Islam: great states and urban centres in the medieval West African Sahel
págs. 549-567
págs. 568-585
págs. 586-601
The king's counsellors' two faces: a portuguese perspective
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The papal chancery: Avignon and beyond
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A new legal cosmos: late Roman lawyers and the early medieval church
págs. 653-673
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Privilege in medieval societies from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, or: how the exception proves the rule
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Everyday life and elites in the later Middle Ages: the civilised and the barbarian
págs. 770-788
Scholastic thought in humanist guise: François Hotman's
págs. 789-810
págs. 811-830
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