Research Catalog

Title

The companion to medieval society / Franco Cardini ; translated by Corrado Federici.

Author

Cardini, Franco

Publication

Montréal [Québec] ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Federici, Corrado, 1946-

Description

288 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps; 28 cm.

Summary

Presents one thousand years of medieval European society through its politics, culture, and ideas, exploring topics dealing with women, foreigners, inter-city relations, and the transmission of knowledge.

Uniform Title

Societa medievale. English

Alternative Title

• Societa medievale.
• Medieval society

Subject

• 500-1500
• Medeltiden
• Civilization, Medieval
• Social history > Medieval, 500-1500
• Middle Ages

Note

• Translation of: La societa medievale.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliography (p. 275-276) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

What are the Middle Ages? -- The "silent collapse" of the western Roman empire -- Christianization of Europe -- A world to be reorganized (eighth to tenth centuries) -- The church -- Women in the church and in society -- The emperor -- Kings -- The aristocracy -- Peasants -- Roads -- The city -- The discovery of the other -- Cathedrals and towers -- Education and universities -- The cultural imaginary -- Holidays and feasts -- Birth and death -- An expanding world -- Internal and external enemies -- The discovery of Asia -- Science and magic -- Languages and literature -- The new figurative art -- The fourteenth-century crisis -- Toward the Renaissance.

ISBN

• 9780773541030
• 0773541039

OCLC

• 793221973
• SCSB-12748403

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library