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"A Short Medieval Reader contains the essential primary sources for exploring the Middle Ages in depth. Designed to work with and supplement the sixth edition of A Short History of the Middle Ages, this book provides comprehensive readings ranging from Iceland to Egypt and from England to Iraq. Beginning with the Christianization of the Roman Empire, the readings illustrate all the major events, religious and intellectual movements, people, saints and sinners, ideals, fears, and fantasies of the period in Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world. Each source is clearly dated and, because all sources are translated into English, the original language is specified to remind students of the diversity of cultures that existed in the Middle Ages. Introductions to each source provide the necessary context and are followed by questions designed to guide the student's reading. Annotations, explanations, and ancillary materials--including maps, a genealogy, and illustrations--are supplied where needed. A Short Medieval Reader provides a feast for inquiring minds, priced for a student's budget."--

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note to the Reader -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Buddhism -- 2. Stoicism -- 3. Violence and Neostoicism -- 4. Peaceable Kingdoms -- 5. Angry Words -- 6. Aristotle and His Heirs -- 7. From Hell to Heaven -- 8. Moral Sentiments -- 9. Early Medical Traditions -- 10. In the Lab -- 11. Society's Child -- 12. Anger Celebrated -- Conclusion: My Anger, Our Anger -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Sources for Plates -- Index

RésuméLe pouvoir et le sacré sont des catégories commodes pour explorer les phénomènes politiques du haut Moyen Âge. Les émotions sont ici proposées comme catégorie analytique nouvelle et utile. Les paradigmes aujourd'hui anciens de l'histoire des émotions, élaborés par Johan Huizinga et Norbert Elias qui imaginaient un Moyen Âge en enfance et émotionnellement incontrôlé, ne sont plus viables. Les cognitivistes et les constructionnistes ont démontré depuis que les émotions sont des jugements pré ou non-verbaux profilés par les sociétés elles-mêmes. Cette approche nous permet de postuler l'existence de « communautés émotionnelles », chacune dotée de son vocabulaire et de ses propres modes d'expression. Deux de ces communautés du VIIesiècle sont ici examinées : la première a pris forme dans la cour neustrienne de Clotaire II et de son fils, Dagobert Ier ; la seconde correspond aux factions qui se sont exprimées au cours des vingt dernières années du siècle. Leurs différences radicales jettent une lumière nouvelle à la fois sur le pouvoir et le sacré au début du Moyen Âge.

"Complex and varied, vibrant and intense, medieval objects demand to be examined closely, to be thought about deeply, to be approached kinesthetically. Extraordinary in the multiplicity of meanings that it harbors and engenders, the material culture of the Middle Ages offers its beholders a rich experience of looking, often multisensory, always rewarding. It offers, too, a glimpse of an equally rich society, or rather the many societies that were in constant flux and in intermittent conversations (and, at times, screaming matches) with one another. And yet, each object has its own history. So how do we write history through objects?" --

The extraordinary array of images included in this volume reveals the full and rich history of the Middle Ages. Exploring material objects from the European, Byzantine and Islamic worlds, the book casts a new light on the cultures that formed them, each culture illuminated by its treasures. The objects are divided among four topics: The Holy and the Faithful; The Sinful and the Spectral; Daily Life and Its Fictions, and Death and Its Aftermath. Each section is organized chronologically, and every object is accompanied by a penetrating essay that focuses on its visual and cultural significance within the wider context in which the object was made and used. Spot maps add yet another way to visualize and consider the significance of the objects and the history that they reveal. Lavishly illustrated, this is an appealing and original guide to the cultural history of the Middle Ages