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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.

New research into medieval women from the Anglo-Saxon to the late medieval period demonstrates their energy, defiance and wit. The phenomenon of medieval women's middle age is a stage in the lifecycle that has been frequently overlooked in preference for the examination of female youth and old age. The essays collected here, ranging from the Anglo-Saxon to the late medieval period, and drawing variously from literary studies, history, law, art and theology, address this lacuna. Taking a variety of critical approaches, the contributors consider medieval definitions, paradigms andexperiences of female middle age, analysing how the middle-aged woman perceived herself subjectively, as well as how she was perceived by others. They seek to challenge the received wisdom that in the middle ages, at forty, womenwere deemed "old" and, from that point onwards, their thoughts should be focused on preparing for death. On the contrary, this collection demonstrates their energy, defiance and wit. Sue Niebrzydowski is Lecturer in English, Bangor University, Wales. Contributors: Jane Geddes, Clare A. Lees, Carol M. Meale, Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, Sue Niebrzydowski, Raluca L. Radulescu, Sara Elin Roberts, Corinne Saunders, Diane Watt.

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

The mid-twentieth century gave rise to a rich array of new approaches to the study of the Middle Ages by both professional medievalists and those more well-known from other pursuits, many of whom continue to exert their influence over politics, art, and history today. Attending to the work of a diverse and transnational group of intellectuals - Hannah Arendt, Erich Auerbach, W. E. B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, Erwin Panofsky, Simone Weil, among others - the essays in this volume shed light on these thinkers in relation to one another and on the persistence of their legacies in our own time. This interdisciplinary collection gives us a fuller and clearer sense of how these figures made some of their most enduring contributions with medieval culture in mind. Thinking of the Medieval is a timely reminder of just how vital the Middle Ages have been in shaping modern thought.

'Hostages in the Middle Ages' examines the changing situations in which hostages were used in Europe and the Mediterranean world from the 5th to the 15th centuries, touching on a wide range of topics in military, diplomatic, political, social gender, economic, and legal history

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Dedication -- Endorsements -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: on the history of childhood in the Middle Ages -- 1 The attitude to procreation and the image of the child in medieval culture -- 2 Stages in childhood -- 3 A child is born -- 4 Nursing -- 5 The first stage of childhood -- 6 Abandonment, infanticide, and accidents -- 7 Sickness, handicaps, bereavement, and orphanhood -- 8 On education in the second stage of childhood -- 9 Education for service in the secular church and in the monastery -- 10 Education in the nobility -- 11 Education in urban society -- 12 Education in the peasantry -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index.

Evidence for childhood and youth from the sixth century to the sixteenth, but with particular emphasis on later medieval England. Moving on from the legacy of Ariès, these essays address evidence for childhood and youth from the sixth century to the sixteenth, but with particular emphasis on later medieval England. The contents include the idea of childhoodin the writing of Gregory of Tours, skaldic verse narratives and their implications for the understanding of kingship, Jewish communities of Northern Europe for whom children represented the continuity of a persecuted faith, children in the records of the northern Italian Humiliati, the meaning of romance narratives centred around the departure of the hero or heroine from the natal hearth, the age at which later medieval English youngsters left home, how far they travelled and where they went, literary sources revealing the politicisation of the idea of the child, and the response of young, affluent females to homiletic literature and the iconography of the virgin martyrs in the later middle ages. Contributors: FRANCES E. ANDREWS, HELEN COOPER, P.J.P.GOLDBERG, SIMCHA GOLDIN, EDWARD F. JAMES, JUDITH JESCH, KIM M. PHILLIPS, MIKE TYLER, ROSALYNN VOADEN.