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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 'esprit laique' 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.

The Medieval World

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Preface to the Second Edition











1. Introduction











Part I. Identities: Selves and Others





2. Courts in East and West, Jonathan Shepard





3. At the Spanish Frontier, Peter Linehan





4. Muslims in Christian Iberia, 1000-1526, David Nirenberg





5. How many Medieval Europes? The 'pagans' of Hungary and regional diversity in Christendom, Nora Berend





6. Christians, Barbarians and Monsters. The European discovery of the world beyond Islam, Peter Jackson





7. The Empire of Byzantium, Averil Cameron





8. The Establishment of Medieval Hermeticism, Charles Burnett





9. What the Crusades meant to Europe, Christopher Tyerman





10. The Crusades and the Persecution of the Jews, J. A. Watt





11. Imagines Historiarum: Visions of the Past in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Rosa Rodriguez Porto





12. Strange Eventful Histories: the Middle Ages in the cinema, Stuart Airlie











II. Beliefs, Social Values and Symbolic Order





13. Political Rituals and Political Imagination in the Medieval West from the 4th Century to the 12th, Philippe Buc





14. Modern Mythologies of Medieval Chivalry, Dominique Barthelemy





15. The Unique Favour of Penance: the Church and the People, c.800-c.1100, Sarah Hamilton





16. Gender Negotiations in France during the central Middle Ages: the literary evidence, Linda Paterson





17. Symbolism and medieval religious thought, David d'Avray





18. Sexuality in the Middle Ages, Ruth Mazo Karras





19. Sin, Crime and the Pleasures of the Flesh: the medieval Church judges sexual offences, James Brundage





20. Through a Glass Darkly: seeing medieval heresy, Peter Biller





21. A la recherche de l'esprit laique in the late middle ages, Roberto Lambertini





22. Saints and Martyrs in Late Medieval Religious Culture, Carl Watkins





23. The Corpse in the Middle Ages: the problem of the division of the body, Agostino Paravicini Bagliani





24. The Crucifixion and the Censorship of Art around 1300, Paul Binski











III. Power and Power-structures





25. Space, Culture and Kingdoms in Early Medieval Europe, Paul Fouracre





26. The Outward Look: Britain and beyond in medieval Irish literature, Maire Ni Mhaonaigh





27. Powerful Women in the early Middle Ages: queens and abbesses, Pauline Stafford





28. Perceptions of an Early Medieval Urban Landscape, Cristina La Rocca





29. Assembly Politics in Western Europe from the Eighth Century to the Twelfth, Timothy Reuter





30. Beyond the Comune: the Italian city-state and its inheritance, Mario Ascheri





31. Timbuktu and Europe: trade, cities and Islam in 'medieval' West Africa, Timothy Insoll





32. Medieval Law, Susan Reynolds





33. Rulers and Justice, 1200-1500, Magnus Ryan





34. The King's Counsellors' Two Faces: a Portuguese perspective, Maria Joao Branco





35. Fullness of Power? Popes, bishops, and the polity of the Church, 1215-1517, James Burns





36. The papal chancery: Avignon and beyond, Patrick Zutshi











IV. Elites, Organisations and Groups





37. A New Legal Cosmos: late Roman Lawyers and the early medieval Church, Caroline Humfress





38. Medieval Monasticism, Janet L. Nelson





39. Aspects of the Early Medieval Peasant Economy as revealed in the Polyptych of Prum, Yoshiki Morimoto





40. Privilege in Medieval Societies from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Century, or: How the exception proves the rule, Alain Boureau





41. What did the Twelfth-Century Renaissance Mean?, Jacques Le Goff





42. The English Parish and its Clergy in the Thirteenth Century, C. H. Lawrence





43. Everyday Life and Elites in the later Middle Ages: the civilised and the barbarian, Gabor Klaniczay





44. Scholastic Thought in Humanist Guise: Francois Hotman's Ancient French Constitution, George Garnett





45. On 1500, Elizabeth A.R. Brown