Medieval Worlds

A Sourcebook

Roberta Anderson, Dominic Bellenger, Roberta Anderson, Dominic Bellenger

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781136405204
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European Medieval History
• Index: History

Complete with introductions, full commentary, glossary, and a guide to further reading, Medieval Worlds is a comprehensive sourcebook for the study of Western Europe from the fifth to the fifteenth century.

Drawing on a wide range of documents, from chronicles, legal, state, and church documents, to biographies, poems, and letters from all over Europe, the authors expertly illustrate to the reader the unity – and complexity – of the medieval world.

Amongst many more, central issues discussed include:

• the diverse world of monasteries
• the Papacy
• the Crusades
• women
• the roles of the town and countryside.

Medieval Worlds presents the reader with a view of the medieval era as it was: one of immense diversity with openness to new ideas, and outreach in areas from technology to natural philosophy.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of documents
• List of illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• The editors
• Glossary
• Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction to medieval worlds
• 2 The monastic world
• 3 The world of the papacy
• 4 The world of the Crusades
• 5 The world of the feudal kingdoms
• 6 The English political world
• 7 The world of the outsider
• 8 The world of women
• 9 The world of the mind
• 10 The world of the countryside
• 11 The world of the town
• 12 The medieval world self-observed
• Bibliography
• Index