Synopses & Reviews
The period of the tenth and early eleventh centuries was crucial in the formation of Europe, much of whose political geography and larger-scale divisions began to take shape at that time. It was also an era of great fragmentation, and hence of differences that have been magnified by modern national historiographical traditions. This volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History reflects these varying traditions, and provides an authoritative survey in its own terms. The volume is divided into three sections: general themes, the former Carolingian lands, and areas farther afield.
Table of Contents
List of maps; List of plates; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction Timothy Reuter; Part I. General Themes: 2. Rural economy and country life Robert Fossier; 3. Merchants, markets and towns Peter Johanek; 4. Rulers and government Janet Nelson; 5. The Church Rosamond McKitterick; 6. Monasticism Joachim Wollasch; 7. Intellectual life Claudio Leonardi; 8. Artists and patrons Henry Mayr-Harting; Part II: Post-Carolingian Europe: 9. The Ottonians as kings and queens Eckhard Müller-Mertens; 10. Saxony and the Elbe slavs in the tenth century Gerd Althoff; 11. Bavaria in the tenth and early eleventh centuries Herwig Wolfram; 12. Lotharingia Michel Parisse; 13. Burgundy and Provence, 879 1032 Constance Bouchard; 14. The kingdom of Italy Giuseppe Sergi; 15. West Francia: the kingdom Jean Dunbabin; 16. West Francia: the northern principalities David Bates; 17. West Francia: the southern principalities Michel Zimmermann; 18. England Simon Keynes; Part III. Non-Carolingian Europe: 19. European Russia, c. 500-c. 1050 Thomas Noonan; 20. Bohemia and Poland Jerzy Strzelczyk; 21. Hungary Kornél Bakay; 22. Byzantium in equlilibrium, 886 944 Jonathan Shepard; 23. Bulgaria: the other Balkan âempireâJonathan Shepard; 25. Byzantium and the west Jonathan Shepard; 26. Southern Italy in the tenth century Graham Loud; 27. Sicily and al-Andalus under Muslim rule Hugh Kennedy; 28. The Spanish kingdoms Roger Collins; Bibliographies; Indexes.