All too often the medieval social past has been explored as an adjunct to high politics The subject of this study is ordinary men & women for whom the politics of the manor the vill or the borough were often far more real & pressing It engages with questions relating to the various structures of society be they social hierarchy household family parish or manor lay or clergy It also considers the ways in which age gender & marital status shaped people's lives ...

A spirited & thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire & the Reformation was a long & hugely transformative period-one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this landmark book & he succeeds in producing the most riveting account of medieval Europe in a generation Tracking the entire sweep of the Middle Ages across Europe Wickham focuses on important changes century by century including such pivotal crises & moments as the fall of the western Roman Empire Charlemagne's reforms the feudal revolution the challenge of heresy the destruction of the Byzantine Empire the rebuilding of late medieval states & the appalling devastation of the Black Death He provides illuminating vignettes that underscore how shifting social economic & political circumstances affected individual lives & international events Wickham offers both a new conception of Europe's medieval period & a provocative revision of exactly how & why the Middle Ages matter ...

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For centuries carved writings & artworks in churches lay largely unnoticed So archaeologist Matthew Champion started a nationwide survey to gather the best examples In this book he shines a spotlight on a forgotten world of ships prayers for good fortune satirical cartoons charms curses windmills word puzzles architectural plans & heraldic designs Drawing on examples from surviving medieval churches in England the author gives a voice to the secret graffiti artists from the lord of the manor & the parish priest to the people who built the church itself Here are strange medieval beasts knights battling unseen dragons ships sailing across lime-washed oceans & demons who stalk the walls Latin prayers for the dead jostle with medieval curses builders' accounts & slanderous comments concerning a long-dead archdeacon Strange & complex geometric designs created to ward off the evil eye' & thwart the works of the devil share church pillars with the heraldic shields of England's medieval nobility ...

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For some historians medieval Iberian society was one marked by peaceful coexistence & cross-cultural fertilization; others have sketched a harsher picture of Muslims & Christians engaged in an ongoing contest for political religious & economic advantage culminating in the fall of Muslim Granada & the expulsion of the Jews in the late fifteenth century The reality that emerges in Medieval Iberia is more nuanced than either of these scenarios can comprehend Now in an expanded second edition this monumental collection offers unparalleled access to the multicultural complexity of the lands that would become modern Portugal & Spain The documents collected in Medieval Iberia date mostly from the eighth through the fifteenth centuries & have been translated from Latin Arabic Hebrew Judeo-Arabic Castilian Catalan & Portuguese by many of the most eminent scholars in the field of Iberian studies Nearly one quarter of this edition is new including visual materials & increased coverage of Jewish & Muslim affairs as well as more sources pertaining to women social & economic history & domestic life This primary source material ranges widely across historical chronicles poetry & legal & religious sources & each is accompanied by a brief introduction placing the text in its historical & cultural setting Arranged chronologically the documents are also keyed so as to be accessible to readers interested in specific topics such as urban life the politics of the royal courts interfaith relations or women marriage & the family ...

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