The Medieval World (Routledge Worlds)

Peter Linehan and Janet L Nelson

ISBN 10: 041530234X / ISBN 13: 9780415302340

Published by U.S.A.: Routledge, 2003

About this Item

A heavy volume that may require additional postage depending upon shipping destination. "This groundbreaking collection brings the Middle Ages to life and conveys the distinctiveness of this diverse, constantly changing period. Thirty-eight scholars bring together one medieval world from many disparate worlds, from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu. This extraordinary set of reconstructions presents the reader with a vivid re-drawing of the medieval past, offering fresh appraisals of the evidence and modern historical writing. Chapters are thematically linked in four sections: identities beliefs, social values and symbolic order power and power-structures elites, organizations and groups. Packed full of original scholarship, The Medieval World is essential reading for anyone studying medieval history." (Publisher).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Medieval World (Routledge Worlds)
• Publisher: U.S.A.: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041530234X
• ISBN 13: 9780415302340
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • MEDIEVAL STUDIES

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Synopsis

This groundbreaking collection brings the Middle Ages to life and conveys the distinctiveness of this diverse, constantly changing period. Thirty-eight scholars bring together one medieval world from many disparate worlds, from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu.

This extraordinary set of reconstructions presents the reader with a vivid re-drawing of the medieval past, offering fresh appraisals of the evidence and modern historical writing.

Chapters are thematically linked in four sections:

• identities
• beliefs, social values and symbolic order
• power and power-structures
• elites, organizations and groups.

Packed full of original scholarship, The Medieval World is essential reading for anyone studying medieval history.

About the Author

Peter Linehan is Fellow and Dean of St. John's College, Cambridge. Janet L. Nelson is Professor of Medieval history at King's College, London. She is also the president of the Royal Historical Society.