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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      12 August 2009
      02 November 2006
      ISBN:
      9780511497216
      9780521820745
      9780521168632
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511497216
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.93kg, 504 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.88kg, 504 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, European History: General Interest, History, European Studies
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    Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, European History: General Interest, History, European Studies
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    This is a collection of influential and challenging essays by British medievalist Timothy Reuter, a perceptive and original thinker with extraordinary range who was equally at home in the Anglophone or German scholarly worlds. The book addresses three interconnected themes in the study of the history of the early and high Middle Ages. Firstly, historiography, the development of the modern study of the medieval past. How do our contemporary and inherited preconceptions and pre-occupations determine our view of history? Secondly, the importance of symbolic action and communication in the politics and polities of the Middle Ages. Finally, the need to avoid anachronism in our consideration of medieval politics. Throwing light both on modern mentalities and on the values and conduct of medieval people themselves, and containing articles, at time of publication, never previously been available in English, this book is essential reading for any serious scholar of medieval Europe.

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    "...highly influential." -David Luscombe, The Historian

    "...Reuter draws his ideas from the latest scholarship and discusses complex ideas on an accessible level."--Sarah Whitten, UCLA: Comitatus

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