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A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time has considerably expanded, to a point where we are in danger of no longer seeing the proverbial forest for the trees. The present, innovative handbook offers compact articles on essential topics, ideals, specific knowledge, and concepts defining the medieval world as comprehensively as possible. The topics covered in this new handbook pertain to issues such as love and marriage, belief in God, hell, and the devil, education, lordship and servitude, Christianity versus Judaism and Islam, health, medicine, the rural world, the rise of the urban class, travel, roads and bridges, entertainment, games, and sport activities, numbers, measuring, the education system, the papacy, saints, the senses, death, and money.

Civilization, Medieval --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- History

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La 4e de couv. indique : "Les trente dernières années de recherche archéologique ont contribué à bouleverser notre connaissance du Moyen Âge. En effet, grâce au travail des archéologues, les vestiges racontent la vie quotidienne des femmes et des hommes de cette histoire millénaire (Ve-XVIe siècle), dans les villes et les campagnes. Ce livre s'attache à mettre en contrepoint d'une vision classique du Moyen Âge, exclusivement tournée vers les chevaliers et les châteaux, les données sur l'habitat, l'alimentation, l'agriculture, l'artisanat, les innovations technologiques, l'aménagement du territoire, les déplacements, la gestion des ressources et de l'environnement, les croyances, les rites funéraires... Loin d'être une simple période de transition entre l'Antiquité et la Renaissance, le Moyen Âge se révèle désormais dynamique, inventif et riche en diversité. Joëlle Burnouf et Isabelle Catteddu, toutes deux archéologiques médiévistes, proposent dans cet ouvrage une lecture nouvelle et vivante du Moyen Âge."

Archaeology, Medieval --- Civilization, Medieval --- Archéologie médiévale --- Civilisation médiévale --- Archaeology, Medieval. --- Civilization, Medieval. --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Antiquities, Medieval --- Medieval antiquities --- Medieval archaeology --- History --- Civilization --- Archéologie médiévale --- Civilisation médiévale --- Archéologie médiévale. --- Civilisation médiévale. --- Chivalry --- Renaissance

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Since the fifteenth century, when humanist writers began to speak of a “middle” period in history linking their time to the ancient world, the nature of the Middle Ages has been widely debated. Across the millennium from 500 to 1500, distinguished historian Johannes Fried describes a dynamic confluence of political, social, religious, economic, and scientific developments that draws a guiding thread through the era: the growth of a culture of reason. Beginning with the rise of the Franks, Fried uses individuals to introduce key themes, bringing to life those who have too often been reduced to abstractions of the medieval “monk” or “knight.” Milestones encountered in this thousand-year traversal include Europe’s political, cultural, and religious renovation under Charlemagne; the Holy Roman Empire under Charles IV, whose court in Prague was patron to crowning cultural achievements; and the series of conflicts between England and France that made up the Hundred Years’ War and gave to history the enduringly fascinating Joan of Arc. Broader political and intellectual currents are examined, from the authority of the papacy and impact of the Great Schism, to new theories of monarchy and jurisprudence, to the rise of scholarship and science. The Middle Ages is full of people encountering the unfamiliar, grappling with new ideas, redefining power, and interacting with different societies. Fried gives readers an era of innovation and turbulence, of continuities and discontinuities, but one above all characterized by the vibrant expansion of knowledge and an understanding of the growing complexity of the world.

History of Europe --- anno 500-1499 --- Civilization, Medieval. --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- History --- Europe --- Middle Ages. --- Dark Ages --- History, Medieval --- Medieval history --- Medieval period --- World history, Medieval --- World history --- Medievalism

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Often fragmented and without context, early medieval inscribed and sculpted stone monuments of the fifth to eleventh centuries AD have been mainly studied via their shape, their decoration and the texts a fraction of them bear. This book, investigating stone monuments from Ireland, Britain and Scandinavia (including the important memorials at Iniscealtra, County Clare), advocates three relatively new, distinctive and interconnected approaches to the lithic heritage of the early Middle Ages. Building on recent theoretical trends in archaeology and material culture studies in particular, it uses the themes of materiality, biography and landscape to reveal how carved stones created senses of identity and history for early medieval communities and kingdom. An extensive introduction and eight chapters span the disciplines of history, art-history and archaeology, exploring how shaping stone in turn shaped and re-shaped early medieval societies. Howard Williams is Professor of Archaeology, University of Chester. Joanne Kirton is Project Manager, Big Heritage, Chester. Meggen Gondek is Reader in Archaeology, University of Chester. Contributors: Ing-Marie Back Danielsson, Iris Crouwers, Meggen Gondek, Mark A. Hall, Joanne Kirton, Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh, Clíodhna O'Leary, Howard Williams.

Megalithic monuments --- Civilization, Medieval. --- Europe --- History --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- 476-1492 --- Archaeology. --- Biography. --- Carved stones. --- Early Middle Ages. --- History. --- Identity. --- Inscribed stones. --- Landscape. --- Material culture. --- Materiality. --- Stone monuments.

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This volume analyses the importance of history, the textual resources of the past and the integration of Christian and imperial Rome into the cultural memory of early medieval Europe within the wider question of identity formation. The case studies in this book shed new light on the process of codification and modification of cultural heritage in the light of the transmission of texts and the extant manuscript evidence from the early middle ages. The authors demonstrate how particular texts and their early medieval manuscript representatives in Italy, Francia, Saxony and Bavaria not only reflect ethnic, social and cultural identities but themselves contributed to the creation of identities, gave meaning to social practice, and were often intended to inspire, guide, change, or prevent action, directly or indirectly. These texts are shown to be part of a cultural effort to shape the present by restructuring the past.

HISTORY / Europe / General. --- Geschichtsschreibung. --- Handschrift. --- Kollektives Gedächtnis. --- Schriftlichkeit. --- Civilization, Medieval --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Collective memory --- Group identity --- Civilisation médiévale --- Manuscrits médiévaux --- Mémoire collective --- Identité collective --- Roman influences. --- Sources. --- History. --- Influence romaine --- Sources --- Histoire --- Bible --- Influence --- Medieval civilization. --- Europa. --- Europe --- History --- General. --- Civilisation médiévale --- Manuscrits médiévaux --- Mémoire collective --- Identité collective --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- National characteristics --- Rome