An intellectual portrait of Europe in the High Middle Ages by one of the great medievalists of this century.The struggle over fundamental issues erupted with gr

The struggle over fundamental issues erupted with great fury in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. In this book preeminent medievalist Heinrich Fichtenau turns

Medieval Christianity evolved economic, intellectual, and theological structures to consolidate authority and test orthodoxy. This book investigates the relatio

This volume examines the influence of R. I. Moore and the nature of heresy and its repression in the Middle Ages. The volume considers the vexing question of th

In high medieval France, men and women saw the world around them as the product of tensions between opposites. Imbued with a Christian culture in which a pennil