Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
PART I THE MIDDLE AGES 1
1 The Idea of a Middle Ages 3Edward D. English and Carol Lansing
PART II EARLY MEDIEVAL FOUNDATIONS 7
2 Economies and Societies in Early Medieval Western Europe 9Matthew Innes
3 Politics and Power 36Hans Hummer
4 Religious Culture and the Power of Tradition in the Early Medieval West 67Yitzhak Hen
PART III POPULATIONS AND THE ECONOMY 87
5 Economic Takeoff and the Rise of Markets 89James Paul Masschaele
6 Rural Families in Medieval Europe 111Phillipp R. Schofield
7 Marriage in Medieval Latin Christendom 130Martha Howell
8 Gender and Sexuality 161John Arnold
9 Society, Elite Families, and Politics in Late Medieval Italian Cities 185Edward D. English
PART IV RELIGIOUS CULTURE 209
10 New Religious Movements and Reform 211Maureen C. Miller
11 Monastic and Mendicant Communities 231Constance H. Berman
12 Hospitals in the Middle Ages 257James W. Brodman
13 Popular Belief and Heresy 276Carol Lansing
14 Jews in the Middle Ages 293Kenneth R. Stow
15 Muslims in Medieval Europe 313Olivia Remie Constable
PART V POLITICS AND POWER 333
16 Conflict Resolution and Legal Systems 335Thomas Kuehn
17 Medieval Rulers and Political Ideology 354Robert W. Dyson
18 Papal Monarchy 372Andreas Meyer
19 Urban Historical Geography and the Writing of Late Medieval Urban History 397Teofilo F. Ruiz
20 Bureaucracy and Literacy 413Richard Britnell
21 The Practice of War 435Clifford J. Rogers
22 Expansion and the Crusades 455Christopher Tyerman
PART VI TECHNOLOGIES AND CULTURE 475
23 Romanesque and Gothic Church Architecture 477Stephen Murray
24 Aristocratic Culture: Kinship, Chivalry, and Court Culture 500Richard E. Barton
25 Philosophy and Humanism 525Stephen Gersh
26 Philosophy and Theology in the Universities 544Philipp W. Rosemann
PART VII THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES 561
27 Medieval Europe in World History 563R. I. Moore
Index 581