Authors: Marcus Bull
ISBN-13: 9780198731856, ISBN-10: 019873185X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: January 2003
Edition: New Edition
Marcus Bull is Senior Lecturer in the department of Historical Studies at the University of Bristol. He is the author of Knightly Piety and the Lay Response to the First Crusade (OUP, 1993) and The Miracles of Our Lady of Rocamadour: Analysis and Translation (Woodbridge, 1999).
This volume provides a variety of complementary points of entry to the history of France between 900 and 1200. Chapters contributed by a leading team of historians cover key themes such as France's political culture and identity, rural economy and society, the Church, and France's relations with the outside world.
General Editor's Preface | ||
List of contributors | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Constructing identities of medieval France | 15 |
2 | Political culture | 43 |
3 | Rural economy and society | 77 |
4 | The south | 102 |
5 | The Church | 134 |
6 | The French overseas | 167 |
Conclusion | 197 | |
Further reading | 203 | |
Chronology | 214 | |
Maps | 221 | |
Index | 227 |