Debating the Middle Ages Issues and Readings

by Little, Lester K.; Rosenwein, Barbara H.

• ISBN13: 9781577180074
• ISBN10: 1577180070
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-09-16
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This collection brings together some of the most original and influential work in the field of medieval history in recent years.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Editors' Acknowledgments	vii	(1)
Acknowledgments to Sources	viii	(2)
A Note on Format	x	(1)
List of Abbreviations	xi
Introduction	1	(4)
Part I The Fate of Rome's Western Provinces	5	(100)
Editors' Introduction	7	(8)
1 Conceptions of Ethnicity in Early Medieval Studies	15	(10)
Walter Pohl
2 The Barbarians in Late Antiquity and How They Were Accommodated in the West	25	(20)
Walter Goffart
3 The Fall of Rome Will Not Take Place	45	(13)
Chris Wickham
4 The Decline of the Western Empire	58	(15)
Richard Hodges
David Whitehouse
5 Gregory of Tours and Clovis	73	(19)
Ian N. Wood
6 Missionaries and Magic in Dark-Age Europe	92	(13)
Alexander Murray
Part II Feudalism and Its Alternatives	105	(106)
Editors' Introduction	107	(7)
7 The Banal Seigneury and the "Reconditioning" of the Free Peasantry	114	(20)
Pierre Bonnassie
8 The Year 1000 Without Abrupt or Radical Transformation	134	(14)
Dominique Barthelemy
9 The Tyranny of a Construct: Feudalism and Historians of Medieval Europe	148	(22)
Elizabeth A.R. Brown
10 Giving Each His Due	170	(10)
Fredric L. Cheyette
11 Strangers and Neighbours	180	(11)
Monique Bourin
Robert Durand
12 Amicitiae [Friendships] as Relationships Between States and People	191	(20)
Gerd Althoff
Part III Gender	211	(88)
Editors' Introduction	213	(6)
13 Queens as Jezebels: the Careers of Brunhild and Balthild in Merovingian History	219	(35)
Janet Nelson
14 Women and the Norman Conquest	254	(10)
Pauline Stafford
15 The "Cruel Mother": Maternity, Widowhood, and Dowry in Florence in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries	264	(13)
Christiane Klapisch-Zuber
16 Men's Use of Female Symbols	277	(13)
Caroline Walker Bynum
17 Burdens of Matrimony: Husbanding and Gender in Medieval Italy	290	(9)
Susan Mosher Stuard
Part IV Religion and Society	299	(89)
Editors' Introduction	301	(9)
18 The Evangelical Awakening	310	(20)
Marie-Dominique Chenu
19 The Use and Abuse of Miracles in Early Medieval Culture	330	(10)
Sofia Boesch Gajano
20 The Dead in the Celestial Bookkeeping of the Cluniac Monks Around the Year 1000 Dominique	340	(23)
Iogna-Prat
21 Literacy and the Making of Heresy, c. 1000-c. 1150	363	(13)
R.I. Moore
22 Religion, Folklore, and Society in the Medieval West	376	(12)
Jean-Claude Schmitt
Index of Persons and Places	388