A Companion to the Medieval World by Lansing, Carol -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover WILEY-BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO HISTORY Title page Copyright page Notes on Contributors Part I: The Middle Ages

Part II: Early Medieval Foundations

Chapter Two: Economies and Societies in Early Medieval Western Europe

Living through the Crisis of the Roman Empire Rome’s Shadow and the Study of the Early Middle Ages Urbanism and the Economy: The Rhythms of Change A World of Villages: The Transformation of the Countryside Changing Aristocracies: Wealth and Social Status The End of the Early Middle Ages?

Chapter Three: Politics and Power Chapter Four: Religious Culture and the Power of Tradition in the Early Medieval West

Some Preliminary Historiographical Observations Paganism, Christianity, and the Conversion of Europe The Threefold Liturgical Cycle Religion and Political Ideology

Part III: Populations and the Economy

Chapter Five: Economic Takeoff and the Rise of Markets Chapter Six: Rural Families in Medieval Europe

The Rural Family The Economy of the Rural Family The Culture of the Rural Family Conclusion

Chapter Seven: Marriage in Medieval Latin Christendom

Secular Imperatives Enter the Church The Bonds of Kinship and Conjugality in the Later Middle Ages Marital Woes

Chapter Eight: Gender and Sexuality

Historiography and Gender Patriarchies, Misogynies, Femininities Masculinities Sexualities Gender as Lived Experience

Chapter Nine: Society, Elite Families, and Politics in Late Medieval Italian Cities

Sources Families Elite Political Dynamics

Part IV: Religious Culture

Chapter Ten: New Religious Movements and Reform

The Early Middle Ages “Gregorian Reform” The Origins of the Eleventh-Century Reform Movements Characterizations and Evaluations of Eleventh-Century Reform New Religious Movements

Chapter Eleven: Monastic and Mendicant Communities Chapter Twelve: Hospitals in the Middle Ages Chapter Thirteen: Popular Belief and Heresy

The Problem of Sources Belief and Skepticism Heresy Women and Gender Persecution Deconstruction

Chapter Fourteen: Jews in the Middle Ages

Jews and their Rulers Jews and Culture Sexuality and Family The Corpus Christi and its Absence

Chapter Fifteen: Muslims in Medieval Europe

Part V: Politics and Power

Chapter Sixteen: Conflict Resolution and Legal Systems

Disputes and Settlements in the Early Middle Ages Ordeals and Proof Meaning of Ordeal “Revolution” in Law Ius commune and Ius proprium Courts and Procedures English Common Law Conclusion

Chapter Seventeen: Medieval Rulers and Political Ideology

The Two Powers Problem Dualism from Gelasius I to Charlemagne Dualism in the High Middle Ages: Papal Monarchy Opposition to the Church’s Claims Political Change, the “ Western Schism,” and the Conciliar Movement

Chapter Eighteen: Papal Monarchy

The Foundations The Early Stages Expansion Reaching out to the World The Pope as Monarch in the Church

Chapter Nineteen: Urban Historical Geography and the Writing of Late Medieval Urban History

Medieval Urban History Cities and Towns Urban History Reconsidered Town and Country: Rethinking the City Urban Historical Geography: What is it? New Approaches

Chapter Twenty: Bureaucracy and Literacy

The Early Middle Ages (400–750) The High Middle Ages (750–1100) The Later Middle Ages (1100–1500)

Chapter Twenty-one: The Practice of War

Overview Gathering a Force Developing a Strategy Devastation and Shadowing Skirmishes and Ambushes Assaults Siege Warfare Battle Little War and Private War Truce and Peace

Chapter Twenty-two: Expansion and the Crusades

Part VI: Technologies and Culture

Chapter Twenty-three: Romanesque and Gothic Church Architecture

The Problem: Historiographic Overview Representation and Production of Space Telling the Story of Romanesque and Gothic Conclusion

Chapter Twenty-four: Aristocratic Culture: Kinship, Chivalry, and Court Culture

Lineage and Kinship Structures Chivalry and Courtliness Courts, Courtliness, and Civilizing Processes

Chapter Twenty-five: Philosophy and Humanism

Medieval Philosophical Humanism: Three Phases Conclusion A Note on Petrarch

Chapter Twenty-six: Philosophy and Theology in the Universities

The Legacy of the Twelfth Century The Journey of the Corpus Aristotelicum around the Mediterranean Thirteenth-Century Scholasticism: The New Aristotle Thomas Aquinas The Condemnation of 1277 The Nominalist Alternative Reactions to Nominalism

Part VII: The European Middle Ages

Chapter Twenty-seven: Medieval Europe in World History

The Master Narrative of Academic History Getting away from Gibbon The Expansion of Civilization The Great Transformation The First Great Divergence

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