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AN EXAMINATION OF THE CHANGES THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE REVEALS THAT THE WORLD APPEARS TO BE MOVING BACK INTO THE MIDDLE AGES. THE PLACE OF THE EMPEROR HAS BEEN TAKEN BY THE U.S. PRESIDENT, THAT OF THE POPE BY THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS. AS IN THE MIDDLE AGES, THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY CLASH OVER MONEY. AS IN THE MIDDLE AGES, THE PRESIDENT WIELDS THE MILITARY POWER AND THE SECRETARY SEEKS TO HOLD SWAY OVER PUBLIC OPINION. PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANT, THE SECRETARY SEEMS TO BE GAINING AT THE EXPENSE OF THE PRESIDENT--TO WAGE WAR IN KOSOVO, SOMALIA, AND KUWAIT, THE LATTER ULTIMATELY NEEDED THE PERMISSION OF THE FORMER. THE FUTURE MIDDLE AGES WILL LIKELY SEE CONTINUED DECENTRALIZATION AND MASSIVE POPULATION MOVEMENTS FROM ONE POLITICAL UNIT TO THE NEXT.

The gender of grace : impotence, servitude, and manliness in the fifth-century West / Kate Cooper and Conrad Leyser -- Did women have a transformation of the Roman world? / Julia M.H. Smith -- The gender of money : Byzantine empresses on coins (324-802) / Leslie Brubaker and Helen Tobler -- "Ex utroque sexu fidelium tres ordines" : the status of women in early Medieval canon law / Eva M. Synek -- "Halt! Be men!" : Sikelgaita of Salerno, gender and the Norman conquest of southern Italy / Patricia Skinner -- The metamorphosis of woman : transmission of knowledge and the problems of gender / Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker -- Visions of my youth : representations of the childhood of Medieval visionaries / Rosalynn Voaden and Stephanie Volf -- Female petitioners in the Papal penitentiary / Ludwig Schmugge -- Gendering princely dynasties : some notes on family structure, social networks, and communication at the courts of the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach around 1500 / Cordula Nolte -- Thematic reviews

This volume contains twelve essays that describe the writing of history in medieval Western Europe. Each chapter examines a type of subject matter about which medieval historians wrote, and discusses both the texts and the modern approaches to these texts. The authors include both historians and literary scholars. There are four chapters on early medieval historiography (universal history, national/ethnic history, institutional history, and biography/hagiography) and eight on later medieval historiography (the same four, plus dynastic, urban, contemporary, and legendary history). This comprehensive one-volume survey, in English, of medieval historiography can serve both as an introduction for students and the interested layperson, and as a handbook for the scholar