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Portraits of Medieval Europe, 800–1400
About this book
This volume provides a collection of 'imagined lives' – individuals who, no matter their position on the social hierarchy, were crucial to the development of medieval Europe and the modern period that followed.
Based on primary source materials and the latest historical research, these literary accounts of otherwise unsourced or under-sourced individuals are written by leading scholars in the field. The book's approach transcends the limitations of both historical narrative and literary fiction, offering a research-informed presentation of real people that is enriched by informed speculation and creative storytelling. This enriched presentation of the lives of these individuals offers the quickest route to understanding medieval culture, society, and intellectual thought. Crucially, the book treats the whole of Europe, broadly defined: both conventional areas of study such as England and France, and also lesser studied but no less important areas such as eastern Europe, Iberia, and the Balkans. The reader of Portraits of Medieval Europe encounters the diversity present in the European past: the resulting portraits – unique, personal, and engaging – offer not only a wide geographical scope but also perspective on the formation of European society in its fullest form.
This book is accessible and engaging for students new to medieval history as well as those wishing to expand their knowledge of medieval society.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Maps
- 1 Introduction
- 2 ‘My Name is Euphemios…. Euphemios of Amastris’: Memories of a Eunuch at His Emperor(s)' Service in the Byzantine Insular and Coastal Koine (ca. 680–ca. 740)
- 3 Gisela, Abbess of Chelles, in Conversation with Charlemagne and Alcuin of York
- 4 Theutberga: Reflections on the Divorce of King Lothar II
- 5 For She Is Not to Work: A Noble's Experience of Human Trafficking in the Viking Age
- 6 Ruin and Misery: The Troubles of Erchempert of Montecassino
- 7 On the Caliph's Secret Service: Ibrāhīm ibn Ya‘qūb on Slavic Europe
- 8 Brian Bórumha, High King of Ireland
- 9 Otloh of St Emmeram: A Life of Temptations
- 10 Unknown: A Concubine of Many Names
- 11 Basil the Bogomil: Seen Through Contemporary Eyes
- 12 My Father's Noble Life: Boris, Son of King Koloman; by Konstantinos Kalamanos
- 13 Heloise: Philosopher of Love and Friendship
- 14 Between the Lines: The Life of Havoise of Brittany, c. 1096–1165
- 15 The Gifts of Teresa Fernández
- 16 ‘A Princess Wooed by Many’: Agnes of France, Empress of Constantinople
- 17 I am Thibaut I of Navarre, the Poet Who Would Be King
- 18 Notarius Ricardus de Omnibene, OFM, from Genoa
- 19 On the Edges: Medieval Swansea, Visited by Ralph Baldock, Bishop of London
- 20 Queen Helen of Serbia: Catholic Noblewoman – Orthodox Queen
- 21 The Missini Siblings
- 22 A Pilgrim's Deliberation: Johaneta Aymara's Pilgrimage to Le Puy-en-Velay, en route to the Camino de Santiago de Compostela
- 23 Abbot Heinrich Kresse and St Barbara
- Index