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Covering over one thousand years of history and containing primary source material from the European, Byzantine, and Islamic worlds, Barbara H. Rosenwein?s Reading the Middles Ages, Second Edition once again brings the Middle Ages to life.
List of contents
Preface xix Abbreviations and Symbols xxi Abbreviations for the Authorized Version of the Bible xxiii Chapter 1: Prelude: The Roman World Transformed (c.300-c.600) A Christianized Empire Heresy and Orthodoxy Patristic Thought Saintly Models Barbarian Kingdoms Timeline for Chapter One 58 Chapter 2: The Emergence of Sibling Cultures (c.600-c.750) The Resilience of Byzantium The Formation of the Islamic World The Impoverished but Inventive West Timeline for Chapter Two 106 Chapter 3: Creating New Identities (c.750-c.900) The Material Basis of Society The Abbasid Reconfiguration Al-Andalus The Western Church and Empire Expanding Christianity Timeline for Chapter Three 166 Chapter 4: Political Communities Reordered (c.900-c.1050) Regionalism: Its Advantages and Its Discontents Byzantine Expansion Scholarship across the Islamic World Kingdoms in East Central Europe Northern Europe Timeline for Chapter Four 227 Containing the Holy 229 Reading Through Looking 246 Chapter 5: The Expansion of Western Europe (c.1050-c.1150) Commercial Take Off Church Reform The Clergy in Action The Crusades and Reconquista The Norman Conquest of England The Twelfth-Century Renaissance Cluniacs and Cistercians Timeline for Chapter Five 302 Chapter 6: Institutionalizing Aspirations (c.1150-c.1250) The Crusades Continue Grounding Justice in Royal Law Local Laws and Arrangements Bureaucracy at the Papal Curia Confrontations Caring for the Body Vernacular Literature New Developments in Religious Sensibilities Timeline for Chapter Six 376 Chapter 7: Discordant Harmonies (c.1250-c.1350) East Central Europe in Flux Transformations in the Cities Heresies and Persecutions Rulers and Ruled Modes of Thought, Feeling, and Devotion Timeline for Chapter Seven 442 Chapter 8: Catastrophe and Creativity (c.1350-c.1500) The Plague The Ottomans Byzantium: Decline and Fall War and Social Unrest Crises and Changes in the Church and Religion The Renaissance Finding a New World Timeline for Chapter Eight 503 Sources 505 Index of Names, Places, and Readings 515
About the author
Barbara H. Rosenwein is Professor in the Department of History at Loyola University Chicago. She is the author of several books, including Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages (2006), Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe (1999), and the highly successful A Short History of the Middle Ages (fourth edition, 2014).
Summary
Covering over one thousand years of history and containing primary source material from the European, Byzantine, and Islamic worlds, Barbara H. Rosenwein's Reading the Middle Ages, Second Edition once again brings the Middle Ages to life.
