Peter Linehan - The Medieval World

THE MEDIEVAL WORLD

This groundbreaking collection brings the Middle Ages to life, and conveys the distinctiveness of this diverse, constantly changing period. From the contributions of thirty-eight scholars, one medieval world merges from many disparate worlds, stretching from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu. This remarkable set of reconstructions presents the reader with the future of the medieval past, offering fresh appraisals of the evidence and of modern historical writing.

Chapters are thematically linked in four sections:

• identities in the medieval world
• beliefs, social values and symbolic order
• power and power structures
• elites, organisations and groups

This volume is packed full of original scholarship and is set to become essential reading for anyone studying medieval history.

Contributors: Stuart Airlie, Mario Ascheri, Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Dominique Barthlemy, Nora Berend, Peter Biller, Paul Binski, Alain Bourear, Maria Joo Branco, Elizabeth A.R. Brown, James Brundage, Philippe Buc, Charles Burnett, James Burns, David dAvray, Paul Fouracre, Sarah Hamilton, Caroline Humfress, Timothy Insoll, Peter Jackson, Ruth Karras, Gbor Klaniczay, Cristina La Rocca, Jacques Le Goff, C.H. Lawrence, Peter Linehan, Mire N Mhaonaigh, Yoshiki Morimoto, Janet L. Nelson, David Nirenberg, Linda Paterson, Timothy Reuter, Susan Reynolds, Magnus Ryan, Jonathan Shepard, Pauline Stafford, Christopher Tyerman, and Jack Watt.

The editors: Peter Linehan is Fellow and Dean of St Johns College, Cambridge, and Janet L. Nelson is Professor of Medieval History at Kings College, London.

THE MEDIEVAL WORLD

Edited by

Peter Linehan and Janet L. Nelson

First published 2001

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CONTENTS

Peter Linehan and Janet L. Nelson

Jonathan Shepard

Peter Linehan

David Nirenberg

Nora Berend

Peter Jackson

Charles Burnett

Christopher Tyerman

J. A. Watt

Stuart Airlie

Philippe Buc

Dominique Barthlemy

Sarah Hamilton

Linda Paterson

David dAvray

Ruth Mazo Karras

James Brundage

Peter Biller

Agostino Paravicini Bagliani

Paul Binski

Paul Fouracre

Mire N Mhaonaigh

Pauline Stafford

Cristina La Rocca

Timothy Reuter

Mario Ascheri

Timothy Insoll

Susan Reynolds

Magnus Ryan

Maria Joo Branco

James Burns

Caroline Humfress

Janet L. Nelson

Yoshiki Morimoto

Alain Boureau

Jacques Le Goff

C. H. Lawrence

Gbor Klaniczay

Elizabeth A. R. Brown

Stuart Airlie is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Glasgow. He has written widely on earlier medieval politics and society, and a major study of these themes is forthcoming. The history of film is another of his interests.

Mario Ascheri is Professor of Legal History at the University of Siena. His many published works include Siena nel Renascimiento (1985) and I libri del leoni: la nobilt di Siena in et medicea 15571737 (1996).

Dominique Barthlemy counts as many serfs among his ancestors as he does knights. A student of Georges Duby, he teaches at the University of Paris IV and the cole Pratique des Hautes tudes where he occupies the chair of the History of Feudal France.

Nora Berend is Assistant Lecturer in Medieval History at Cambridge University and a Fellow of St Catharines College. Her book At the Gate of Christendom: Jews, Muslims and pagans in medieval Hungary was published in 2001 by Cambridge University Press.

Peter Biller is Professor of History at the University of York. He has published more or less across the whole range of medieval religion, from theology to heresy, and from sexual ethics to healing. His The Measure of Multitude: population in medieval thought was published by Oxford University Press in 2000, and The Waldenses: between a religious order and a church 11701530 by Variorum in 2001.

Paul Binski has taught at Yale and Manchester Universities and is now University Lecturer and Head of the Department of History of Art at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. His Westminster Abbey and the Plantagenets. Kingship and the representation of power 12001400 was published in 1995.

Alain Boureau is Directeur dtudes at the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. The most recent of his published works is Thologie, science et censure au XIIIe siecle: le cas de Jean Peckham (1999) and, in English translation, The Lords First Night. The myth of the droit de cuissage (1998).

Maria Joo Branco is Assistant Professor of Medieval History at the Universidade Aberta, Lisbon and Director of the Centre of Portuguese Language of the Istituto Camos, University of Oxford. Her earlier works having included studies of female monasticism and the irregular behaviour of churchmen, she is currently researching the subject of royal power and ecclesiastics in thirteenth-century Portugal.

Elizabeth A. R. Brown is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School, City University of New York. She has published major papers on many aspects of the cultural, political and legal history of the later medieval and early modern periods a chronological distinction the utility of which her work has little time for. Two collections of her papers, Politics and Institutions in Capetian France