Medieval History 400-1500

La connaissance de l’Islam dans l’Occident médiéval..

The question these articles seek to respond to, in this fifth collection by Jean Gaudemet to be published by Variorum, is how the intellectual elite of the medieval Church perceived the institutions among which they lived - how they portrayed them, and how they sought to influence them. Whether dea..

La Vie d'Etienne le Jeune par Étienne le Diacre..

La Vie d'Etienne le Jeune par Étienne le Diacre..

Latin and Vernacular Poets of the Middle Ages..

The studies in this latest collection by David Jacoby explore the multiple facets of encounters between states, social and 'national' groups, and individuals belonging to Latin Christianity, Byzantium and the Islamic world generated in the eastern Mediterranean by trade, shipping, military conquest,..

This second collection of papers by Peter Edbury focuses primarily on literature composed in the Latin East. The legal treatises from Jerusalem, Cyprus and Antioch have long been recognized as providing insights into the juridical and social history of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The studi..

Law and Liturgy in the Latin Church, 5th–12th Centuries..

Law mattered in later medieval England and Ireland. From the charter to the will to the court roll, the majority of the documents which have survived from later medieval England and Ireland, and medieval Europe in general, are legal in nature. Yet despite the fact that law played a prominent role in..

This volume brings together a set of papers by international scholars, distinguished in their own right, in honor of James Brundage. Each contribution corresponds to an important focus of Brundage's own work. The connection between the development of medieval legal thought and constitutional ideas i..

The liturgy, the public worship of the Catholic Church, was crucial in forging the society of early medieval Rome, in that it oriented Roman society to God and fostered the dominance of the clergy. This study places the liturgy centre stage, filling a gap in research on early medieval Rome and demon..

How were the Crusades made possible? This volume is the first to bring together experts from the fields of medieval Western, Byzantine and Middle Eastern studies specifically to address the logistics of Crusading. It deals with questions of manpower, types and means of transportation by land and sea..