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Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --1. Boethius and the Rise of Europe --2. Gregory the Great and the New Power of the Franks --3. Charlemagne and the First Renewal of the Roman Empire --4. Consolidation of the Kingdoms --5. The End of Days Draws Menacingly Close --6. "The True Emperor Is the Pope" --7. The Long Century of Papal Schisms --8. The Vicar of God --9. The Triumph of Jurisprudence --10. The Light of Reason --11. The Monarchy --12. Waiting for Judgment Day and the Renaissance --Epilogue: The Dark Middle Ages? --Abbreviations --Notes --Selected Bibliography --Index.

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- SERIES PREFACE -- GENERAL EDITOR'S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- GENRE TROUBLE: TRAGEDY, COMEDY, AND THE CONFUSION DES GENRES -- HISTORIOGRAPHY TROUBLE: THAT ABSENCE WHICH IS NOT ONE -- AUDIENCE TROUBLE: CATHARSIS AND CONTROL -- CHAPTER ONE Forms and Media -- ANCIENT TRAGEDIES AND MEDIEVAL MEDIA -- FORMS OF TRAGEDY IN THE EMERGING LATIN WEST -- MEDIEVAL MODES OF CONVEYANCE -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER TWO Sites of Performance and Circulation -- TOWARDS A POETICS OF MEDIEVAL TRAGIC PLACE -- THE SONG OF SYBIL, CASTILE AND CATALONIA(THIRTEENTH THROUGH SIXTEENTH CENTURIES) -- FARSA DEL JUEGO DE CAÑAS , TALAVERA LA REAL (1554) -- DANCES OF DEATH, PAN-EUROPEAN (FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES) -- LLIBRE VERMELL , MONTSERRAT ( c. 1399-1400) -- DANÇA GENERAL DE LA MUERTE (COMPOSED c. 1392, COPIED c. 1460-80) -- THE CASTLE OF PERSEVERANCE, EAST ANGLIA ( c. 1440) -- ORDINALIA , CORNWALL (LATE FOURTEENTH CENTURY) -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER THREE Communities of Production and Consumption -- NICHOLAS TREVET, TRANSLATOR STUDII -- TRAGEDY'S ORIGIN: THE FALL OF ADAM -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER FOUR Philosophy and Social Theory -- I. THEORIES OF TRAGEDY IN LATE ANTIQUITY -- II. THE LEGACIES OF LATE ANTIQUE THEORIES OF TRAGEDY IN MEDIEVAL MUSICAL PRAXIS -- III. TRAGEDY AND SOCIETY IN BYZANTIUM47 -- IV. THEORIES OF TRAGEDY IN THE LATE MEDIEVAL WEST -- V. THE USES OF TRAGEDY IN MEDIEVAL COMMUNITIES: CHRISTIAN, JEWISH, AND MUSLIM -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER FIVE Religion, Ritual and Myth -- I. THEATER VS. AMPHITHEATER -- II. THE BIRTH OF CHRISTIANITY FROM THE SPIRIT OF TRAGEDY -- III. THE TRAGEDY OF MARTYRDOM -- IV. THE MEDIEVAL RENASCENCE OF TRAGEDY -- EPILOGUE: THE SENECAN RENAISSANCE IN ENGLAND.

This volume explores a world that thought deeply about imperial power and emperors but one that perhaps never had an "empire" of its own. These synthetic essays from experts across a wide variety of disciplines mine the intellectual world of this period and begin to demolish the myth of the so-called "Dark Ages," showing how the European Middle Ages were illuminated by vigorous debates that echo today. The story of medieval Western empires is both familiar and foreign. It is a story about politics, culture, religion, society, gender, sex, and economics, and how porous the boundaries between those categories can often be.A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Middle Ages offers a detailed and highly-illustrated account of how we got to where we are, as well as the dangers of not fully understanding why those origins matter

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The European Middle Ages have recently attracted the attention of international relations (IR) scholars as a "testing-ground" for established IR theories. Neorealists, historicizing neorealists, and constructivists dispute the meanings of medieval anarchy and hierarchy in the absence of sovereignty. On the basis of a detailed critique of these approaches, I offer a historically informed and theoretically controlled interpretation of medieval geopolitics revolving around contested social property relations. My interpretation is meta-theoretically guided by dialectical principles. Lordships are the constitutive units of medieval authority, combining economic and political powers and assigning contradictory forms of rationality to their major agents, lords, and peasants. Interlordly competition over land and labor translates directly into distinct forms of geopolitical relations, generating a culture of war. Against this background, I clarify the specific meanings of the medieval "state," territoriality, frontiers, peace, war, anarchy, and hierarchy before drawing out the wider implications of changing social property forms for IR theory.

Drawing on evidence from Asia, Northern Africa, and Europe, this collection of essays examines a rich array of concepts and practices that promoted peaceable intercultural exchange in the Middle Ages. The volume explores the possibility that the Middle Ages - a historical era largely ignored or glossed over in present-day debates about the nature and the future of global relations - might provide many potentially revitalizing new genealogies for thinking about cosmopolitanism