This extensive bibliography contains 1,120 different items mostly consisting of journal articles, though monographs are also included. Each entry has a paragraph annotation (in Spanish) summarizing the work.

This text provides a list of items specifically in English from the 19th century until 1980. Resources include articles, book reviews, monographs, and conference proceedings.

This book breaks down the medieval period into four eras: barbarian invasions and the barbarian states (400-650) early medieval Europe (650-1100), the high middle ages (1100-1275) and late medieval Europe (1275-1400). Each section includes information on major military campaigns, different groups of people involved in warfare, discussions of weapons, tactics, and fortifications. At the end of the book, there is a brief section containing biographies of a handful of important figures in medieval military history, an extensive bibliography, and a glossary. Good for the novice as well as the veteran of medieval warfare history.

For the researcher interested in early medieval Western European and Byzantine art, it will be helpful to look at this text. Annotations are provided for all entries and are organized according to topic, often very specific in nature (Byzantine floor mosaics). Be aware however, that this bibliography is 30 years old.

In 1974, the reference librarians at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill compiled a list of all of their and Duke University’s medieval and renaissance material in this bibliography. Since both universities are research institutions with centers for the study of the middle ages and renaissance, this bibliography is extremely long and extensive. It is an excellent source to find research pre 1974. The downside to this resource is that it is over 40 years old and therefore leaves out many recent developments in the field.

This volume contains lists of serials, dissertations and monographs relating to medieval architecture.

This detailed bibliography organized by subject. Among the many topics are birds by specific type (and there are subgroups of different birds), stones, images of hunting, clocks, baths, etc. In total, there are 1896 citations in this bibliography and each citation is accompanied by a brief annotation. This is an excellent source with which to begin research.

This guide is a very thorough bibliography on the western middle ages, Byzantium, and medieval Islamic civilization. Sources include a brief two to three sentence annotation. Topics covered are widespread and include 138 different categories. This bibliography includes primary sources, monographs, journal articles, checklists, and other bibliographies.

This bibliography is a list of sources organized categorically by chapter. Chapters include sources on war, battles, sieges, naval operations, archery, cavalry, gunpowder and firearms, fortifications, financing and so on. This is an excellent resource which should be used to locate myriad additional sources. Citations range from introductory material to specific items written for professional medievalists.

Within the 30 volume series Great Lives from History published by Salem Press are contained two volumes on the middle ages. These volumes feature 356 entries ranging from 3-6 pages in length. Each entry is sectioned into different parts: early life, life’s works, significance, and further reading. In keeping in line with current trends in scholarship, entries include figures from the entire Eurasian landmass, rather than just western Europe. This resource serves as an excellent reference guide for anyone looking for quick-to-find medieval bibliographies.

While not as geographically expansive or thorough in description as the The Middle Ages volumes from the Great Lives from History series, this book does provide entries of basic information for European and Islamic historical figures. However, bibliographies are sparse and oftentimes contain only one source. This still is a good source for obtaining fast bibliographical facts.

This text is similar to the Medieval Studies: A Bibliographical Guide by Everett Crosby and also functions as a good general bibliography.

Social and economic history shed important light into historical investigation, and the study of the medieval period is no exception. This study provides some key insights into the social and economic conditions of the western European middle ages. The book begins with various historical lenses with which to interpret history (e.g. Marxist, the French School, etc.) and covers topics such as population, sex, family, popular piety, war, etc).

Feudalism was a ubiquitous social and political institution which originated during the ninth century in Germany. To learn more about this central characteristic of medieval life, read this text which has been translated into English. It chronicles the development of feudalism from its inception in the early middle ages until its decline in the fifteenth century. The book provides a very thorough and yet readable account of the history of medieval feudalism and vassalage.

This text covers such topics as technological developments in the middle ages and the impact of these developments on agriculture, mining, and other medieval industries. Topics discussed also include medieval labor conditions and the effect of medieval commercial activity on the environment.

Davis provides a very incisive analysis of late medieval English markets and market towns. Though he focuses on how medieval market goers juggled the conflicts brought about by commerce and trade - namely the usefulness of trade on the one hand and the greed it could lead to on the other – he offers a very detailed picture of medieval market towns, interactions between those who frequented such places, and what goods would have been bought and sold there. This book is recommended for anyone looking to gain a greater insight into medieval market exchanges, and is accessible to the beginner and scholar alike.

This detailed study on European symbolic vocabulary, and quasi-dramatic form of one late medieval courtly festival -- the royal entry -- is the first full length study of the ceremonial arrival of royalty to a city and the celebrations which took place on behalf of these sovereigns. It’s timeframe ranges from 1370-1550.

Works on the customs and rituals of the middle ages can be found throughout the general stacks. Joelle Rollo-Koster’s compendium of essays provides information on various customs ranging from rituals in medieval business to performing arts of fifteenth century Japanese outcasts.

This text provides minimal information on the different sports and games played during the middle ages. The material presented here is suitable only for the most novice of researchers. It is very rudimentary and should only be used as a starting point. However, what is unique about this book is that covers sports and leisure activities from Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America and Oceania.

Aimed at those with basic/intermediate knowledge of the medieval period, this atlas offers some good political maps of different areas of the medieval world. Beginning with the late Roman Empire, the temporal range of the atlases range from 418 to the end of the fifteenth century with the spread of printing in Europe. While most of the atlases depict different empires and kingdoms in Europe and the Arab world, this work expands the scope of the middle ages from Europe and the Muslim areas to East Asia and Africa. This work functions as a good starting point for those interested in learning about other areas of the world not historically included in medieval period.

This three-volume encyclopedia offers a fairly extensive overview of the crusading period which spans the late eleventh century up to the late fifteenth century. Entries include historical figures, families/dynasties, literary works, places, and subjects relating to the crusades. While this encyclopedia covers approximately 300 years, the bulk of the entries relate to the period of the Latin crusades and the occupation of the Levant between 1095 and 1291. All entries contain a bibliography.

This reference work is monumental in scope. It comprises 13 volumes, a supplement and an index. Entries include people, events, geographic place names, and abstract ideas such as philosophical theorems, currency, etc. The index volume provides an alphabetical list of all articles in these 13 volumes and a list of all the contributors as well. This multivolume set is an excellent starting point for the newcomer to the medieval studies discipline. Most of the entries are relatively short and provide quick access to most topics relating to the medieval period. It is worth noting that researchers should also consult the supplement volume due to the updates it contains. To compose, compile and publish this work took nearly 25 years. In that time, scholarship had changed in the medieval studies field and subjects which were not of interest to scholars at the inception of this project became popular. The supplement provides entries on these topics that entered the scholarly realm as the project neared its termination.

Although the Middle Ages saw brilliant achievements in the diverse nations of East Central Europe, this period has been almost totally neglected in Western historical scholarship. East Central Europe in the Middle Ages provides a much-needed overview of the history of the region from the time when the present nationalities established their state structures and adopted Christianity up to the Ottoman conquest. Jean Sedlar’s excellent synthesis clarifies what was going on in Europe between the Elbe and the Ukraine during the Middle Ages, making available for the first time in a single volume information necessary to a fuller understanding of the early history of present-day Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, and the former Yugoslavia. Sedlar writes clearly and fluently, drawing upon publications in numerous languages to craft a masterful study that is accessible and valuable to the general reader and the expert alike. The book is organized thematically; within this framework Sedlar has sought to integrate nationalities and to draw comparisons. Topics covered include early migrations, state formation, monarchies, classes (nobles, landholders, peasants, herders, serfs, and slaves), towns, religion, war, governments, laws and justice, commerce and money, foreign affairs, ethnicity and nationalism, languages and literature, and education and literacy. After the Middle Ages these nations were subsumed by the Ottoman, Habsburg, Russian, and Prussian-German empires. This loss of independence means that their history prior to foreign conquest has acquired exceptional importance in today’s national consciousness, and the medieval period remains a major point of reference and a source of national pride and ethnic identity. This book is a substantial and timely contribution to our knowledge of the history of East Central Europe.

This two volume set is a comprehensive list of most chronicles and their authors from the medieval period. Lemmata (entries) include authors’ names and the title of specific chronicles. It is the best reference source for researchers looking to identify chronicles and their authors. It spans approximately 1200 years (from 300-1500) and is not limited to Christian Europe but includes Islamic and Jewish chronicles and chroniclers from the same period. Each entry is complete with a bibliography. A very useful feature at the end of volume two is a list of all the manuscripts where these chronicles can be found which is arranged according to library or institution holding them.

Completed around the same time as the Dictionary of the Middle Ages, this ten volume enterprise can be seen as the German equivalent to the aforesaid work. Entries are extensive and contain important highly detailed bibliographic citations. This work is greatly regarded by medievalists.

This valuable reference work offers concise, expert answers to questions on all aspects of life and culture in medieval England-art, architecture, law, literature, kings, commoners, women, music, commerce, technology, warfare, religion, and many others. It takes as its scope English social, cultural, and political life from the Anglo-Saxon invasions in the fifth century to the turn of the sixteenth century. To make it even more useful to information seekers, the Encyclopedia also traces England's ties to the Celtic world of Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, to the French and Anglo-Norman world of the Continent, to the Viking and Scandinavian world of the North Sea, and to the world of medieval Christendom. The result is a detailed portrait of the English Middle Ages and their key historical events, personages, and cultural contexts.

The first single-volume reference work on the history and culture of medieval France, this information-filled Encyclopedia of over 2,400 entries covers the political, intellectual, literary, and musical history of the country from the early fifth century to the late 15th. The shorter entries offer succinct summaries of the lives of individuals, events, works, cities, monuments, and other important subjects, followed by essential bibliographies. Longer essay-length articles provide interpretive comments about significant institutions and important periods or events. The Encyclopedia is thoroughly cross-referenced and includes a generous selection of illustrations, maps, charts, and genealogies

This A-Z encyclopedia covers the Middle Ages in Germany. It offers the most recent scholarship available, while also providing details on the daily life of medieval Germans.

English reference work containing approximately 800 entries ranging from 250 to 3,000 words. The time range for this encyclopedia is 500-1500. This is a suitable source for beginning scholars and the layman and is broken down into the following proportions of topics: 25 % history, 25% literature, language and culture (Arabic, Hebrew, and Iberian Romance languages represented), 25% life and society, 15% philosophy and science, and 10% art.

Covers the history of Scandinavia (Iceland, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway) from the Migration Period (ca. eighth century) until the Reformation. Entries range from 150 to 5,000 words and each are accompanied with a bibliography containing English, Scandinavian or German sources. This work is a good place for anyone who is unfamiliar with medieval Scandinavia.

This three volume set serves as an excellent guide for advanced researchers seeking to learn an overview of the history of an area of medieval scholarship. Lemmata are arranged alphabetically by topic. Each lemma is a topic within the field of medieval studies and contains a general introduction, a history of scholarship in the aforementioned subfield, and current trends in the discipline. Subfields can range from geographic locales such as the Arab West, to names of prominent medieval figures, to abstract concepts such as queer studies. Overall this is a very valuable research tool allowing a researcher to situate his/her scholarship into the current discussion.

A seven volume work that covers a one thousand year time period from 500-1500. It represents a very extensive general overview of the medieval period. Each volume is organized chronologically and thematically in large parts, with each part further divided into chapters on subjects including history, politics, art, architecture, money, education, etc. These volumes should be consulted not only for their content, but also the extensive bibliographies provided for each chapter. Each chapter has its own bibliography, and sources in each bibliography are divided according to source type (i.e. primary or secondary). Suffice it to say that the bibliographies, if compiled, could stand alone as a separate reference work.

This four volume set is a good reference work to begin research on the middle ages. Published by Oxford University Press, it can be viewed as the little brother of the Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Entries range from the concise to the extensive. Broad topics such as archeology subdivide alphabetically by region.

For those studying Anglo-Saxon culture, this is an indispensable encyclopedia. Lemmata comprise a comprehensive overview of Anglo-Saxon England. A useful feature of this monograph is that it does not confine itself to strict period dates, as many other works on a specific era do. Rather, it includes entries which do not chronologically occur in the Anglo-Saxon period in medieval England (ca. 500-1100) but are still related to it. For example, Laurence Nowell, a sixteenth century scholar who played a major role in the revival of Anglo-Saxon studies is added as an entry. Appendices include lists of English rulers and bishops during this time.

Provides a very useful background for contextualizing the historical and cultural environment in which old and middle English existed. Broken down into chapters, topics range from general English history to old English grammar, a description of the literature of old and middle English, the transition from Anglo-Saxon (as old English is sometimes referred) to middle English in large part due to the Norman Conquest in 1066, etc. This is a good place to begin for a researcher possessing a very basic knowledge of old and middle English seeking to supplement his familiarity of the aforementioned languages with historical context and rudimentary linguistic explanation.

An extensive list of old English vocabulary, however the entries are minimal. Basic definitions are provided for each old English term along with its grammatical function, but no additional information such as first appearance in the literature, source of the word, etc. is provided. This is still a very useful tool to consult if looking up the meanings of old English words. If you are seeking information on specific old English manuscripts or historical linguistics, consult the Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Z 6605.A56 K4 1990) or the Cambridge History of the English language vol. 1 (PE 1072.C36 1992) respectively.

Dictionary of Medieval French (referred to as old French). It covers material from 842 (date of The Oaths of Strasbourg) up to the end of the 14th century. The entries are in old French and their translations are in modern French. Included is an introduction to the old French language and some basic grammatical explanations and examples. All entries contain the source in which the term was first located, the origin of the word, and the date of the first usage of the word in writing.

Dictionary of medieval French literature and medieval French authors. Entries are brief and provide some basic bibliographic information. Material is not limited to France. It contains entries of major works and authors from other countries (e.g. Chaucer). Still, a good place to begin research if looking for a general overview on medieval literature.

A dictionary of middle French representing a lexicon in temporal scope between the 14th century and 1608. Middle French words are provided with their corresponding modern French definition. Sources of first use, word origin, and date of first observed entry into the lexicon are also provided.

This series provides a list of the entire corpus of middle English works. Each work is listed with an accompanying commentary, a brief summary and manuscript information. Although old (the most recent material in the bibliography is from 1955), these volumes are a great place to begin research, allowing the researcher to develop a general picture of a work or works s/he wishes to study.

An excellent and very extensive guide for all topics relating to medieval Latin. The beginning chapters of this book provide long annotated bibliographies of reference guides, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and a list of numerous editions of printed medieval Latin literature, most whose introductory notes, translations and supplementary information are not in English. The next chapters give overviews on all aspects of medieval Latin vocabulary, grammar, syntax, morphology, and orthography. Each chapter has an extensive bibliography. The many remaining chapters in this book contain Latin from all areas of medieval society. Examples ship building, medicine, commerce, everyday life, agriculture, astronomy, astrology, and many other topics. As in the beginning chapters on syntax and grammar, these chapters each contain a bibliography of sources for further research.

This book is an excellent resource for those who are interested in becoming acquainted with the Latin literature of the middle ages. It contains excerpts of famous and minor authors from both the continent and England. Temporally, this book covers most of the medieval period, beginning with writers from late antiquity, ca 350 until 1350. Perhaps the most striking feature of this work is its fairly extensive introduction to medieval Latin grammar and vocabulary. Since much of the Latin writing in the medieval period mirrored vernacular syntax, and the meanings of words changed from their original classical definitions to suit new medieval contexts, this introduction is a welcome addition to this anthology.

This dictionary is a very ambitious work which includes 20 volumes. It is the largest and most extensive catalog of middle English and contains over 15,000 pages. The breadth of this work makes it an extremely valuable resource for scholars of middle English literature and linguistics. In the first volume, there is a guide to consonantal and vowel sounds, dialectical variations with maps, and a list of manuscripts consulted for the basis of this dictionary. Each entry contains the modern English equivalent, all the instances where the word appears in all the middle English, etymological information, and its grammatical function. Given that there was no attempt to standardize spelling until the 18th century, alternative spelling variations of words are also included with each entry. This dictionary is also available online through the University of Michigan at http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/med

This is a handbook for learning how to read old English. It is designed for the beginner who has no knowledge of old English, or for the novice who is need of sharpening his skills. Topics include old English pronunciation, syntax and grammar. The book is divided into chapters, and each chapter contains exercises for the reader to practice and apply the newly acquired material of the current chapter. Since this book’s audience is for beginning or intermediate readers of old English, it does not contain very extensive vocabulary. There is a basic glossary at the end, but it should not be relied upon as a dictionary. For an old English dictionary, consult A Comprehensive Old English Dictionary.

This is a dictionary of Medieval Latin neologisms found in 1,000 manuscripts from the British isles. The entries in this glossary consist of pseudo-Latinized English words (e.g. walnux for walnut), and numerous hapax legomena along with their corresponding modern English translations. This is an invaluable resource for any researcher examining Medieval Latin British and Irish texts.

A short book detailing the evolution of the vulgar (popular) Latin form of the language to its subsequent Romance language forms. In essence, this is a history chronicling how Vulgar Latin, which was spoken throughout the late western Roman Empire, transformed into the Romance languages we know today. Topics covered include vowel and consonantal phonetics, morphology, grammar, vocabulary, lexicographical alterations, and geographic diversification of Vulgar Latin. A good resource for anyone seeking to learn about the evolution of late antique Latin into the Romance languages.

Cities have tended throughout history to be the preferred location for the minting and circulation of coins and coinage has in turn generally reflected the importance of many of these cities. This work, a collection of eleven contributions, explores the relationship between cities and coinage during the extended period beginning in the third century BC and continuing up to the tenth century AD.

This title offers a thorough account of the emergence of Christianity from an initial cult following to its dominance in Europe. The book is not so much a history of the Catholic Church, but of the adoption of Christianity by various European clans and its spread across Europe and Asia minor. Brown is also very adept at describing the various ways different groups of people adopted and adapted Christianity to suit their own cultures.

An expansive guide to the medieval world, with new attention to women, ordinary parishioners, attitudes toward Jews and Muslims, and more For many, the medieval world seems dark and foreign--an often brutal and seemingly irrational time of superstition, miracles, and strange relics. The aggressive pursuit of heretics and attempts to control the "Holy Land" might come to mind. Yet the medieval world produced much that is part of our world today, including universities, the passion for Roman architecture and the development of the gothic style, pilgrimage, the emergence of capitalism, and female saints.   This new narrative history of medieval Christianity, spanning the period 500 to 1500 CE, attempts to integrate what is familiar to readers with new themes and narratives. Elements of novelty in the book include a steady focus on the role of women in Christianity; the relationships among Christians, Jews, and Muslims; the experience of ordinary parishioners; the adventure of asceticism, devotion, and worship; and instruction through drama, architecture, and art. Madigan expertly integrates these areas of focus with more traditional themes, such as the evolution and decline of papal power; the nature and repression of heresy; sanctity and pilgrℑ the conciliar movement; and the break between the old Western church and its reformers.   Illustrated with more than forty photographs of physical remains, this book promises to become an essential guide to a historical era of profound influence.

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity takes as its subject the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Christian Church between 400 and 1500AD. It addresses topics ranging from early medieval monasticism to late medieval mysticism, from the material wealth of the Church to thespiritual exercises through which certain believers might attempt to improve their souls. Each chapter tells a story, but seeks also to ask how and why 'Christianity' took particular forms at particular moments in history, paying attention to both the spiritual and otherwordly aspects of religion,and the material and political contexts in which they were often embedded.This Handbook is a landmark academic collection that presents cutting-edge interpretive perspectives on medieval religion for a wide academic audience, drawing together thirty key scholars in the field from the United States, the UK, and Europe. Notably, the Handbook is arranged thematically, andfocusses on an analytical, rather than narrative, approach, seeking to demonstrate the variety, change, and complexity of religion throughout this long period, and the numerous different ways in which modern scholarship can approach it. While providing a very wide-ranging view of the subject, italso offers an important agenda for further study in the field.

"Conceptually well organized, stylistically clear, intellectually thoughtful, and pedagogically useful." - Thomas Head, Speculum "For its humane and learned approach to its enormous canvas, as well as for the cogency with which it penetrates at speed to the essentials of a vanished historical epoch, this History of the Church in the Middle Ages deserves a very wide audience indeed." - Barrie Dobson, English Historical Review "To have written a scholarly and very readable history of the Western Church over a millennium is a remarkable tour de force, for which Donald Logan is to be warmly congratulated." - C.H Lawrence, The Tablet "A feat of historical synthesis, most confident in its telling of the coming of Christianity. Books like Logan's are needed more than ever before." - Miri Rubin, TLS In this fascinating survey, F. Donald Logan introduces the reader to the Christian church, from the conversion of the Celtic and Germanic peoples to the discovery of the New World. He reveals how the church unified the people of Western Europe as they worshipped with the same ceremonies and used Latin as the language of civilized communication. From remote, rural parish to magnificent urban cathedral, A History of the Church in the Middle Ages explores the role of the church as a central element in determining a thousand years of history. This new edition brings the book right up to date with recent scholarship, and includes an expanded introduction exploring the interaction of other faiths - particularly Judaism and Islam - with the Christian church.

This is a two volume set, with each one broken down into sections and further subdividing into essays. In essence, this set is an anthology and a good source of information for someone already possessing a relatively detailed background knowledge of medieval philosophy. It is recommended for the intermediate to advanced researcher. Important features include appendices pertaining to doctrinal creeds, a list of translated medieval manuscripts, a biography of medieval philosophers, a bibliography of primary sources and a bibliography of secondary sources.

This volume is a key reference tool for the study of Islamic philosophy. It includes detailed discussions of the most important figures from earliest times to the present day, chapters on key concepts in Islamic philosophy and on relevant traditions in Greek and western philosophy.

This title and the Routledge History of Islamic Philosophy provide a more thorough history of Islamic philosophy as well as basic entries of Islamic philosophers. The focus of both works is not specifically medieval, although they do contain valuable information on medieval Islamic philosophy.

This two volume edition is the first encyclopedia of medieval philosophy published in English. Covering the standard period 500-1500, all entries include a bibliography and are between 1,500 and 5,000 words in length. The content is accessible and is suitable for the newcomer and seasoned scholar alike. A key feature is that at the end of the entries, there is often a “see also” section which includes other topics or names of people related to the current entry.

This reference book is broken down into two parts. Part one is a survey of philosophy and provides essays on medieval thought in chronological order and includes Jewish and Islamic philosophy in its discussion. Part two is concerned with issues in medieval philosophy and is divided into subparts each consisting of a topic/issue in medieval philosophy. Each subpart comprises several essays. This book serves as a good starting point for the layman and researcher. Bibliographies at the end of each essay should be consulted for further information.

This monograph serves as a very thorough overview of Byzantine philosophy from the sixth century until the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Each chapter discusses a segment of the near millennium period of Byzantine philosophy, and are arranged in chronological order. At the end of the book there are multiple bibliographies: those which list sources used in the individual chapters and a general bibliography that provides references to an ample amount of other scholarship on Byzantine philosophy as well.

Pilgrimage, a ubiquitous institution in the middle ages, is covered comprehensively in this encyclopedia. Entries were included according to theme. These themes include architecture, church architecture, cult and devotion, cult objects, early pilgrimage, economy, experiences, Islamic pilgrimage, Jewish pilgrimage, literature, miracles, reliquaries, sites, society, and theology.

This text takes a different approach to the traditional scholarly practices regarding medieval medicine. Most of the work in the field focuses on medieval medical practices and the textual tradition of medical knowledge from antiquity, the medieval Arab world, up to the late middle ages. This book seeks to elucidate the medical teaching practices of the medieval period, specifically at the University of Paris. Topics it discusses include teaching methods, relationship between student and professor, and a detailed explanation of the origin and development of the ars medicine, a collection of six texts which were compiled in the 12th century and trace beginnings back to the early Byzantine Empire. However, this monograph is more concerned with medieval education than medicine itself and does not comment on medical practices at the time, but on medical educational practices instead.

There has been quite a bit of scholarly attention on medieval English medicine. Two significant events which changed the course of medical practice in late medieval England was the outbreak of bubonic and pneumonic plague in 1348 and the establishment of the Royal College of Physicians. These two events form the approximate terminus post quem and terminus ante quem of a new era in medieval English medicine.

This two volume work contains a wealth of information on the relation between medieval diet and health as related to the four humors. It also includes discussions on selected medical writings from the period. The work’s overall premise is that diet, health, and medical literature comprised a large genre of medieval writing. The first edition illuminates the breadth and significance of this genre, while the second volume provides extensive lists of manuscripts and incunabula used in this text along with a vast bibliography.

covers the period from 500-1300. Although it does not go into tremendous detail, it does cover the Anglo-Saxon period of English medicine. Due to the widespread

This volume brings new light to Islamic contributions to medieval medicine. Much of the perceptions of Islamic medicine are that Arabic and Islamic scholars served as vehicles for the reintroduction of Greek medical texts into Europe. What is proposed instead is that Islamic medieval medicine represented a blending of different medical knowledge from various cultures including Greek, Syrian, Persian and Arabic. Subjects covered and assigned to individual chapters are the emergence of Islamic medicine, medical theory, physicians and society, practice, popular medicine, and the afterlife. This book takes the form of an introductory survey text.

Read this work for a social perspective on medieval English medicine during the Anglo-Norman period. Topics covered include 12th century access to hospitals and medical care. Interesting features of this book are the two appendices which include a directory of Anglo-Norman physicians from 1100-1154 and a register of Anglo-Norman hospitals.

Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine details the whole scope of scientific knowledge in the medieval period in more than 300 A to Z entries. This resource discusses the research, application of knowledge, cultural and technology exchanges, experimentation, and achievements in the many disciplines related to science and technology. Coverage includes inventions, discoveries, concepts, places and fields of study, regions, and significant contributors to various fields of science. There are also entries on South-Central and East Asian science. This reference work provides an examination of medieval scientific tradition as well as an appreciation for the relationship between medieval science and the traditions it supplanted and those that replaced it. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages website.

A very comprehensive three volume set containing over one thousand entries. Lemmata range from a brief paragraph to several pages, and contain a bibliography. Topics include entries on medieval weaponry, specific battles, wars, and military personnel. At the end of the third volume, each entry in this encyclopedia is listed topically. Suitable for both professional researchers and students new to medieval warfare.

This two volume edition is a good representative of a typical medieval medical manuscript. The content of the manuscript is characteristic of medieval medical texts. It is a compilation of works from various classical, Arabic and medieval doctors. However, what makes it atypical is that it is a middle English translation of those works. This then, is one of the rare medical texts written in a vernacular. The contributors to this two volume edition explain the middle English translations in light of the original Latin and discuss in detail the life of the scribe. This work will be of interest not only to those studying medieval medicine, but also to those researching historical linguistics/philology as well.

Walter Ullmann's contribution to the study of medieval political and legal thought needs no emphasis. In the present volume are collected a number of the early articles which it was not possible to include in his previous collections, together with others published since those volumes appeared. The articles display a striking consistency of approach, though in the more than forty years separating the earliest from the latest there is an obvious development in his thought. Ullman held the view that the law must be studied in its own historical context, as a function of society and a product of the factors which shaped social life; equally, he stressed the central position of the law in the study of medieval history, for its precise character meant that it could provide a more reliable probe into medieval beliefs and doctrine than any other form of evidence.

This volume offers original studies on the subject of medieval education, not only in the formal academic sense typical of schools and universities but also in a broader cultural sense that includes law, liturgy, and the new religious orders of the high Middle Ages. Its essays explore the transmission of knowledge during the middle ages in various kinds of educational communities, including schools, scriptoria, universities, and workshops.

What intellectual and practical tools did medieval peoples employ in situations of disorder? How did they attempt to maintain cultural stability? Arguing against the common notion of a static medieval society organized along kinship and feudal lines, the contributors to Ordering Medieval Society--among them some of Germany's most influential medieval historians--reveal the diverse egalitarian and hierarchical forms of organization that medieval societies used to forge group structure. In the book's first section, "Conceiving," the authors examine intellectual modes of ordering society. They study the different patterns of social classification in the Middle Ages, including the tripartite division between clergy, knights, and peasants. The medieval system of "counting piety" through quantifiable modes of penance provided another way to define social relations. The second part, "Transforming," focuses on times of disorder when social relations were reordered at once intellectually and practically. This section analyzes the transformation of political institutions in fifth-century Gaul in a shift from a Roman to a medieval ideology. Charting a much later institutional transformation, the book provocatively argues that the concept of "the nobility" is a fourteenth-century invention. The final section, "Stabilizing," considers mechanisms for the constitution of egalitarian groups and highly developed systems for conflict resolution in medieval group culture. Contributors: Gerd Althoff, Arnold Angenendt, Thomas Braucks, Rolf Busch, Bernhard Jussen, Thomas Lentes, Hubertus Lutterbach, Joseph Morsel, Otto Gerhard Oexle.

This Collection Of Essays Examines Different, But Linked, Aspects Of The Social organization of Europe from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries. The essays broach two fundamental questions: how were social distinctions and divisions perceived and portrayed by the politically active, the writers, and the image-makers; and, bound up with the first question, according to what principles and methods should the modern enquirer perceive and portray the ordering of society during Western Europe's formative years? The contributors bring perspectives from a range of disciplines, from historical, sociological, and literary to the art-historical and theoretical. Similarly, the contents are not limited to Northwestern Europe, but also address the Muslim Middle East, Dante's Italy, Renaissance Venice, and Adriatic Ragusa (Dubrovnik). An important contribution to the areas of late-medieval and early-modern European social history.

'Pioneers' seems fitting to Professor Gouron to describe the jurists (civilists) of the 12th-century Latin West, that were the bearers of a new science, born in Bologna about 1100. Away from Bologna these pioneers were isolated, scattered from Scotland to Styria or Catalonia, and no more than one hundred can now be identified. These people, and their manuscripts and the relationships between them, are the subject of this collection, the fifth in the Variorum series by Andr¿ouron, himself to be regarded as a pioneer in this field of research. This volume brings together twenty-two studies which have appeared since 1997 in widely scattered publications, often hard to access, along with additional notes and indexes.

This volume comprises papers presented at a meeting held Sept. 6-9, 1978 and organized by the Thomas-Institut of the University of Cologne. Papers are in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish. It includes bibliographical references and an index.

The essays in this collection focus not on texts but on people, specifically on teachers and their students, beginning with the late Carolingian era and continuing through the creation of monastic and secular schools in the centuries before the first universities. Central to the articles in this volume are the schools and communities of Northern France and England, including Reims, Bec, Soissons, and Canterbury, whose patterns of thought and learning gave shape to intellectual endeavours throughout medieval Europe. In addition to some of the most prominent personalities of the day (among them Gerbert of Reims, Lanfranc and Anselm of Bec, Ivo of Chatres, and John of Salisbury), the contributors examine those teachers and students who worked in the shadows: figures like the biblical exegete Richard of Preaux and the musical innovator Theinred of Dover. The focus throughout the volume is on personalities and personal relationships, thus recreating the human connections that lay behind medieval humanism and the Twelfth-Century Renaissance. Taken together, the essays here create a coherent and compelling picture of the tumultuous time before the universities came to organize and take control of teaching and learning-a seminal period when teaching methods and curricula grew out of the particular experience of specific teachers and their interactions with their students.

Jacques Le Goff is a prominent figure in the tradition of French medieval scholarship, profoundly influenced by the Annales school, notably, Bloch, Febvre, and Braudel, and by the ethnographers and anthropologists Mauss, Dumézil, and Lévi-Strauss. In building his argument for "another Middle Ages" (un autre moyen âge), Le Goff documents the emergence of the collective mentalité from many sources with scholarship both imaginative and exact.

The 10 papers in this volume examine university and pre-university education in the 14th to 16th centuries in Germany, Italy, France, and England. Topics covered include the recruitment and support of students, studying abroad, social status, careers of graduates, university rituals, the profession of schoolmaster, and the relation of the studia to the crown. Contributors include William J. Courtenay, Rainer Chr. Schwinges, Klaus Wriedt, Frank Rexroth, Darleen Pryds, Helmut G. Walther, Thomas Sullivan, O.S.B., Martin Kintzinger, Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran Cruz, and Jürgen Miethke.