Handbook of Medieval Culture. Volume 2

Albrecht Classen

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9783110387322
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European Medieval History
• Index: History

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.

General Index

In the General Index I have included a maximum of reference words to make this Handbook as transparent as possible. Its intention is, of course, to lay foundations for future research and to serve as a reference work for many years to come. The extensive inclusion serves specifically to cover as much ground as possible, and the future reader will determine whether this effort was justified and worthwhile or not. I like to believe that the former will be the case. In order to achieve this goal, I had, of course, to rely on all individual contributors who marked essential key words for the index. I rather err on the side of inclusivity than on the side of exclusivity.

1215 Barons’ Revolt 1

1381 Peasants’ Revolt (also: 1381 Rising) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5–6, 7–8

Aachen Gospels

Aachen, 1, 2–3

abacus literature (also: abacus treatises) 1, 2, 3–4

abacus, 1, 2, 3–4, 5–6

Abbasid, 1, 2, 3, 4

– Abbasid caliphate

– Abbasid compromise 1

abbess

abbey, 1

– Abbey of Cluny 1

– Abbey of Meaux 1

– Abbey of Reichenau

– Ab...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Handbook of Medieval Culture
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Jacqueline Stuhmiller Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, and Fishing
• Charlotte A. Stanford Illness and Death
• Mark T. Abate Islamic Spain: Al-Andalus and the Three Cultures
• Miriamne Ara Krummel Jewish Culture and Literature in England
• Oliver M. Traxel Languages
• Scott L. Taylor Law in Literature and Society
• Christian Bratu Literature
• Albrecht Classen Love, Sex, and Marriage
• Christa Agnes Tuczay Magic and Divination
• Alain Touwaide Medicine
• Scott Gwara Medieval Manuscripts
• Kisha G. Tracy Memory, Recollection, and Forgetting
• Jeroen Puttevils Medieval merchants
• Werner Heinz History of Medieval Metrology
• Richard Landes Millenarianism/Millennialism, Eschatology, Apocalypticism, Utopianism
• Ralf Lützelschwab Western Monasticism
• Philipp Robinson Rössner Money, Banking, Economy
• Mary Kate Hurley Monsters
• Karl Kügle Conceptualizing and Experiencing Music in the Middle Ages (ca. 500–1500)
• Moritz Wedell Numbers
• Rory Naismith Numismatics
• Sarah M. Anderson Old Age
• John A. Dempsey The Papacy and the Pan-European Culture
• Cristian Bratu Patrons, Arts, and Audiences
• Francis G. Gentry Poverty
• Charles W. Connell Public Opinion and Popular Culture
• John Sewell Religious Conflict
• Michael Sizer Revolt and Revolution
• Index of Names
• General Index
• Index of Works