This one thousand year history of the civilization of western Europe has already been recognized in France as a scholarly contribution of the highest order and as a popular classic. Jacques Le Goff has written a book which will not only be read by generations of students and historians, but which will delight and inform all those interested in the history of medieval Europe.

Part one, Historical Evolution, is a narrative account of the entire period, from the barbarian settlement of Roman Europe in the fifth, sixth and seventh centuries to the war-torn crises of Christian Europe in...

This edition of over 140 charters sheds light on one of Henry III's most important administrators--Peter of Aigueblanche, bishop of Hereford 1240-68.
Many of the charters issued by the 3 bishops of Hereford between 1234 and 1275 cover matters of parochial organization, monastic houses and their revenues, and ecclesiastical discipline. However, the acta issued by Peter are far more varied in scope, both administratively and geographically. The collection includes a treaty between Henry III and Alfonso X of Castile, a letter about a treaty between Henry III and the count of Savoy, letters...

Unlike monks and nuns, clergy have hitherto been sidelined in accounts of the Middle Ages, but they played an important role in medieval society. This first broad-ranging study in English of the secular clergy examines how ordination provided a framework for clerical life cycles and outlines the influence exerted on secular clergy by monastic ideals before tracing typical career paths for clerics. Concentrating on northern France, England and Germany in the period c.800 c.1200, Julia Barrow explores how entry into the clergy usually occurred in childhood, with parents making decisions for...

The first broad-ranging social history in English of the medieval secular clergy.

For more than forty years Nicholas Brooks has been at the forefront of research into early medieval Britain. In order to honour the achievements of one of the leading figures in Anglo-Saxon studies, this volume brings together essays by an internationally renowned group of scholars on four themes that the honorand has made his own: myths, rulership, church and charters. Myth and rulership are addressed in articles on the early history of Wessex, A thelflA d of Mercia and the battle of Brunanburh; contributions concerned with charters explore the means for locating those hitherto lost, the use...

A comprehensive survey of recent work in Medieval Italian history and archaeology, set within a broader context of studies on major transitions in Europe from c.400 to c.1400CE. Each of the contributors also reflect on the contribution made to the field by Chris Wickham, whose own work spans the transition from Roman to medieval Europe.