The Medieval World

1. Introduction
2. Courts in East and West
3. At the Spanish frontier
4. Muslims in Christian Iberia, 1000–1526: Varieties of Mudejar experience
5. How many medieval Europes? The ‘pagans’ of Hungary and regional diversity in Christendom
6. Christians, barbarians and monsters: The European discovery of the world beyond Islam
7. The Empire of Byzantium
8. The establishment of medieval hermeticism
9. What the Crusades meant to Europe
10. The Crusades and the persecution of the Jews
11. Imagines historiarum: Visions of the past in medieval illuminated manuscripts
12. Strange eventful histories: The Middle Ages in the cinema
13. Political rituals and political imagination in the medieval west from the fourth century to the eleventh
14. Modern mythologies of medieval chivalry
15. The unique favour of penance: The church and the people c.800–c.110
16. Gender negotiations in France during the central Middle Ages: The literary evidence
17. Symbolism and medieval religious thought
18. Sexuality in the Middle Ages
19. Sin, crime and the pleasures of the flesh: The medieval church judges sexual offences
20. Through a glass darkly: Seeing medieval heresy
21. À la recherche de l’ésprit laïque in the late Middle Ages
22. Saints and martyrs in late medieval religious culture
23. The corpse in the Middle Ages: The problem of the division of the body
24. The crucifxion and the censorship of art around 1300
25. Space, culture and kingdoms in early medieval Europe
26. The outward look: Britain and beyond in medieval Irish literature
27. Powerful women in the early Middle Ages: Queens and abbesses
28. Perceptions of an early medieval urban landscape
29. Assembly politics in Western Europe from the eighth century to the twelfth
30. Beyond the comune: The Italian city-state and the problem of defnition
31. Trans-Saharan trade and Islam: Great states and urban centres in the medieval West African Sahel
32. Medieval law
33. Rulers and justice, 1200–1500
34. The king’s counsellors’ two faces: A Portuguese perspective
35. Fullness of power? Popes, bishops and the polity of the Church 1215–1517
36. The papal chancery: Avignon and beyond
37. A new legal cosmos: Late Roman lawyers and the early medieval church
38. Medieval monasticism
39. Aspects of the early medieval peasant economy as revealed in the polyptych of Prüm
40. Privilege in medieval societies from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, or: How the exception proves the rule
41. What did the Twelfth-Century Renaissance mean?
42. The English parish and its clergy in the thirteenth century
43. Everyday life and elites in the later Middle Ages: The civilised and the barbarian
44. Scholastic thought in humanist guise: François Hotman’s ancient French constitution
45. On 1500

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.