Introduction to Medieval HistoryBloomsbury Academic, 26 sep 2002 - 251 pagina's A comprehensive introduction to the sources, methods, and theories most often used by historians of the western middle ages, this book explores the origins of the idea of the ‘middle ages' and its development in Renaissance and modern European historical discourse, the problem of periodisation and the principal themes of modern historiography. Describing the sources of medieval history in detail, it also features chapters on history-writing in the middle ages, administrative and legal documents, coinage and the evidence of archaeology. |
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Preface 79 | 7 |
The Middle Ages the history of an idea | 13 |
The problem of periodization | 59 |
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