The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture is an introduction to medieval Europe unlike any other. These 26 essays, written by accomplished scholars all trained at the University of California, Berkeley, reflect on medieval texts and the opportunities they present for exploration of the Middle Ages. Introduced in a foreword by Thomas N. Bisson (Harvard University), these essays present a textured picture of the medieval world and offer models for how to reflect fruitfully on medieval sources. To help orient the reader, three maps, the editor's introduction, and an index are provided.
Author(s): Jason Glenn
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 368
City: Toronto
Cover
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
A Note on References
Introduction
1 Hearing Voices in Late Antiquity: An Aural Approach to Augustine’s Confessions
2 Confessor Saints and the Origins of Monasticism: The Lives of Saints Antony and Martin
3 The Barbarian Ethos: The Germania, Beowulf, and the Life of Saint Boniface
4 The Written World of Gregory of Tours
5 Two Lives of Saint Radegund
6 The Avenging Abbot: Gregory the Great and His Life of Saint Benedict
7 Crime and Punishment: Anglo-Saxon Law Codes
8 Conversion, Miracles, and the Creation of a People in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History
9 Between Two Empires: Einhard and His Charles the Great
10 Divine Lessons in an Imperfect World: Bernard of Angers and The Book of Sainte Foy’s Miracles
11 William of Poitiers Talks about War
12 Epic Values: The Song of Roland
13 Galbert of Bruges: The Notary as Poet
14 Odo of Deuil’s The Journey of Louis VII to the East: Between The Song of Roland and Joinville’s Life of Saint Louis
15 Encountering the Cid
16 Wondrous Crusade Encounters: Usamah ibn Munqidh’s Book of Learning by Example
17 Between History and Literature: Chrétien de Troyes’s Lancelot and Marie de France’s Lais
18 Walter Daniel’s Life of Aelred of Rievaulx: The Heroism of Intelligence and the Miracle of Love
19 Richard of Devizes: The Monk Who Forgot to be Medieval
20 Mission to Crusade: Friar William of Rubruck’s Journey to the Mongols
21 Saint Francis and Salimbene de Adam: The Franciscan Experience of Family
22 Cities and Kingship in the Medieval West: Joinville’s Louis IX and Paris
23 The Virgin and the King: Alfonso X’s Cantigas de Santa María
24 Moving the Masses: Cola di Rienzo, the Anonimo Romano, and the Roman Crowd
25 Christine de Pizan on Gossip, Misogyny, and Possibility
26 Why Margery Kempe is Annoying and Why We Should Care
Contributors
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