{"product_id":"debating-the-middle-ages-issues-and-readings-hardback-9781577180074","title":"Debating the Middle Ages; Issues and Readings (Hardback) 9781577180074","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDebating the Middle Ages\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIssues and Readings\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLester K. Little (Edited by), LK Little (Author), Barbara H. Rosenwein (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781577180074, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 August 1998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e410 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.6 x 17.7 x 3.5 cm, 0.879 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"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.\" \u003ci\u003ePatrick J. Geary, Director, University of Notre Dame\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDebating the Middle Ages\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003ci\u003eStephen D. White, Professor of Medieval History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\" \u003ci\u003eEconomic History Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\" \u003ci\u003eComitatus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis collection brings together some of the most original and influential work in the field of medieval history in recent years.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cauthor\u003eAcknowledgments to Sources v\u003c\/author\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors’ Acknowledgments Acknowledgments to Sources A Note on Format List of Abbreviations Introduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I The Fate of Rome’s Western Provinces 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors’ Introduction 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Conceptions of Ethnicity in Early Medieval Studies\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWalter Pohl 15\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Barbarians in Late Antiquity and How They Were Accommodated in the West Walter Goffart 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Fall of Rome Will Not Take Place Chris Wickham 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Decline of the Western Empire Richard Hodges and David Whitehouse 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Gregory of Tours and Clovis Ian N. Wood 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Missionaries and Magic in Dark-Age Europe Alexander Murray 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Feudalism and Its Alternatives 105\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors’ Introduction 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Banal Seigneury and the “Reconditioning” of the Free Peasantry Pierre Bonnassie 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Year 1000 Without Abrupt or Radical Transformation\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDominique Barthélemy 134\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Tyranny of a Construct: Feudalism and Historians of Medieval Europe Elizabeth A. R. Brown 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Giving Each His Due Fredric L. Cheyette 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Strangers and Neighbors Monique Bourin and Robert Durand 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Amicitiae [Friendships] as Relationships Between States and People Gerd Althoff 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003evii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eviii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ex\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003exi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003evi Contents\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Gender 211\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors’ Introduction 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Queens as Jezebels: the Careers of Brunhild and Balthild in Merovingian History Janet Nelson 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Women and the Norman Conquest Pauline Stafford 254\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 The “Cruel Mother”: Maternity, Widowhood, and Dowry in\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFlorence in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristiane Klapisch-Zuber 264\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Men’s Use of Female Symbols Caroline Walker Bynum 277\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Burdens of Matrimony: Husbanding and Gender in Medieval Italy Susan Mosher Stuard 290\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Religion and Society 299\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors’ Introduction 301\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 The Evangelical Awakening Marie-Dominique Chenu 310\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 The Use and Abuse of Miracles in Early Medieval Culture\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSofia Boesch Gajano 330\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 The Dead in the Celestial Bookkeeping of the Cluniac Monks Around the Year 1000 Dominique Iogna-Prat 340\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Literacy and the Making of Heresy, c.1000–c. 1150\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eR. 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