The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture : : Reflections on Medieval Sources / / ed. by Jason Glenn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Beall, Judith,; Casey, Kathleen,; Christensen, Katherine,; Denery, Dallas G.,; Fung, Kathleen Stewart,; Glenn, Jason,; Heindl, Jennifer A.,; Husain, Adnan,; Jannuzzi, Lawrence R.,; Lindner, Rudi Paul,; McCulloh, John M.,; Millinger, Susan P.,; Morse, Victoria M.,; Nader, Helen,; North, William,; Oliver, Clementine,; Partner, Nancy,; Remensnyder, Amy G.,; Rubenstein, Jay,; Straw, Carole,; Tuthill, John,
• HerausgeberIn: Glenn, Jason,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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 -- Index