This collection brings together some of the most original and influential work in the field of medieval history in recent years.
Barbara H. Rosenwein is Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago. Her previous publications include To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter (1989). She has recently completed a book on early medieval political culture and strategies, Negotiating Space: Early Medieval Immunities and Other Entry Prohibitions (1999).
Lester K. Little is Dwight W. Morrow Professor of History at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. He previously taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago. His most recent publication is Benedictine Maledictions: Liturgical Cursing in Romanesque France (1993).
Editors' Acknowledgments
Acknowledgements of Sources
A Note on Format
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
The Fate of Rome's Western Provinces
Conceptions of Ethnicity in Early Medieval Studies
The Barbarians in Late Antiquity and How They Were Accommodated in the West
The Fall of Rome will not Take Place
Richard Hodges and David Whitehouse, The Decline of the Western Empire
Gregory of Tours and Clovis
Missionaries and Magic in Dark-Age Europe
Feudalism and Its Alternatives
The Banal Seigneurie and the "Reconditioning" of the Free Peasantry
The Year 1000 without Abrupt or Radical Transformation
The Tyranny of a Construct: Feudalism and Historians of Medieval Europe
Giving Each his Due
Strangers and Neighbours
Amicitiae [Friendships] as Relationships between States and People
Gender
Queens as Jezebels: the careers of Brunhild and Balthild in Merovingian History
Women and the Norman Conquest
The "Cruel Mother": Maternity, Widowhood, and Dowry in Florence in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Men's Use of Female Symbols
Burdens of Matrimony: Husbanding and Gender in Medieval Italy
Religion and Society
The Evangelical Awakening
The Use and Abuse of Miracles in Early Medieval Culture
The Dead in the Celestial Book-Keeping of the Cluniac Monks around the Year 1000: Dominiques Iogna-Prat
Literacy and the Making of Heresy, c. 1000-c. 1150
Folklore and Society in the Medieval West
Index of Persons and Places
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