Lansing Carol - A Companion to the Medieval World

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A companion to the medieval world / edited by Carol Lansing and Edward D. English.

p. cm. (Blackwell companions to European history)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-0922-2 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-118-42512-1 (pbk.)

1. Europe History 476-1492. 2. Middle Ages. 3. Civilization, Medieval. I. Lansing, Carol, 1951 II. English, Edward D.

D117.C657 2009

940.1 dc22

2008051691

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Cover image: 14th-century king administers justice to his subjects. Photo: The Art Archive / Real biblioteca de lo Escorial / Alfredo Dagli Orti.

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Notes on Contributors

John Arnold is Professor in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of Belief and Unbelief in Medieval Europe (London: Edward Arnold, 2005); co-edited with K. J. Lewis, A Companion to the Book of Margery Kempe (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 2004); Inquisition and Power: Catharism and the Confessing Subject in Medieval Languedoc (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001); History: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000); co-edited with S. Ditchfield and K. Davies, History and Heritage: Consuming the Past in Contemporary Culture (Lower Coombe, Dorset: Donhead, 1998); and most recently What is Medieval History? (Cambridge: Polity, 2008).

Richard E. Barton is Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is the author of Making a Clamor to the Lord: Noise, Justice and Power in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century France, in Feud, Violence and Practice: Essays in Medieval Studies in Honor of Stephen D. White , ed. B. Tuten and T. Billado (Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming); Gendering Anger: Ira, Furor and Discourses of Power and Masculinity in the 11th and 12th Centuries, in In the Garden of Evil: the Vices in the Middle Ages , ed. Richard Newhauser (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), 371392; and Lordship in the County of Maine, c. 890 1160 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2004).