This companion analyzes the different ways in which societies from Oceania to Europe and beyond were connected in the period 600-900 CE.

Drawing on 28 original essays, A Companion to the Early Middle Ages takes an inclusive approach to the history of Britain and Ireland from c.500 to c.1100 to ov

After the State and the Church, the most well organized membership system of medieval and early modern Europe was the confraternity. In cities, towns, and villa

The articles in this volume focus upon Boethius's extant works: his De arithmetica and a fragmentary De musica, his translations and commentaries on logic, his

The Eucharist in the European Middle Ages was a multimedia event. First and foremost it was a drama, a pageant, a liturgy. The setting itself was impressive. St