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Debating the Middle Ages
Issues and Readings
Lester K. Little (Edited by), LK Little (Author), Barbara H. Rosenwein (Edited by)
9781577180074, Wiley
Hardback, published 7 August 1998
410 pages
25.6 x 17.7 x 3.5 cm, 0.879 kg
"Rosenwein and Little have produced an extraordinarily broad and intelligent guide to the major debates in medieval history of the past decades. Not only are the selections well chosen, but their introductions are the best surveys of contemporary medieval historiography available in any language." Patrick J. Geary, Director, University of Notre Dame "Debating the Middle Ages will be a uniquely valuable book for beginning and advanced students, for teachers, and for scholars. By prefacing reprints or translations of important recent articles on four broad problems in medieval history with lucid, well-annotated analyses of how debates on each of the four problems has proceeded, Little and Rosenwein provide a superb introduction to the ways in which historians today are studying, arguing about, and reinventing medieval European history." Stephen D. White, Professor of Medieval History "Little and Rosenwein have assembled an impressive selection of essays, incorporating some of the most original and influential recent works in the field of medieval history." Economic History Review "Compilations such as this one will ensure that medieval studies remain intellectually vibrant by encouraging students of the subject to reflect critically upon the forces and ideas that have shaped, and continue to shape, the discipline ... I believe it will prove to be an indispensable tool for both teachers and students in the future." Comitatus
This collection brings together some of the most original and influential work in the field of medieval history in recent years.
Contents Editors’ Acknowledgments Acknowledgments to Sources A Note on Format List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Part I The Fate of Rome’s Western Provinces 5 Editors’ Introduction 7 1 Conceptions of Ethnicity in Early Medieval Studies 2 The Barbarians in Late Antiquity and How They Were Accommodated in the West Walter Goffart 25 3 The Fall of Rome Will Not Take Place Chris Wickham 45 4 The Decline of the Western Empire Richard Hodges and David Whitehouse 58 5 Gregory of Tours and Clovis Ian N. Wood 73 6 Missionaries and Magic in Dark-Age Europe Alexander Murray 92 Part II Feudalism and Its Alternatives 105 Editors’ Introduction 107 7 The Banal Seigneury and the “Reconditioning” of the Free Peasantry Pierre Bonnassie 114 8 The Year 1000 Without Abrupt or Radical Transformation 9 The Tyranny of a Construct: Feudalism and Historians of Medieval Europe Elizabeth A. R. Brown 148 10 Giving Each His Due Fredric L. Cheyette 170 11 Strangers and Neighbors Monique Bourin and Robert Durand 180 12 Amicitiae [Friendships] as Relationships Between States and People Gerd Althoff 191 vii viii x xi vi Contents Part III Gender 211 Editors’ Introduction 213 13 Queens as Jezebels: the Careers of Brunhild and Balthild in Merovingian History Janet Nelson 219 14 Women and the Norman Conquest Pauline Stafford 254 15 The “Cruel Mother”: Maternity, Widowhood, and Dowry in Florence in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries 16 Men’s Use of Female Symbols Caroline Walker Bynum 277 17 Burdens of Matrimony: Husbanding and Gender in Medieval Italy Susan Mosher Stuard 290 Part IV Religion and Society 299 Editors’ Introduction 301 18 The Evangelical Awakening Marie-Dominique Chenu 310 19 The Use and Abuse of Miracles in Early Medieval Culture 20 The Dead in the Celestial Bookkeeping of the Cluniac Monks Around the Year 1000 Dominique Iogna-Prat 340 21 Literacy and the Making of Heresy, c.1000–c. 1150 22 Religion, Folklore, and Society in the Medieval West Index of Persons and Places 388
Walter Pohl 15
Dominique Barthélemy 134
Christiane Klapisch-Zuber 264
Sofia Boesch Gajano 330
R. I. Moore 363
Jean-Claude Schmitt 376
Subject Areas: History [HB]
