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Jason Glenn, ed.
The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture: Reflections on Medieval Sources.

Publisher: Toronto University Press.
Publication due: August 2011.
Page count: 368pp.

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Paperback ISBN 9781442604902, $32.95

Description:

The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture is a collection of unique essays that teaches students of medieval history how to work with primary sources. The goal of the collection is to provide students with a sense of the "texture" of the Middle Ages by having them engage and struggle with some of the most notable texts produced during this period.

The texts discussed in the essays are arranged in chronological order and span the period from the fourth century to the turn of the fifteenth century. Most are well known classics and are commonly used in courses on medieval Europe or Western Civilization. They come from a wide range of genres, and each essay begins with basic information about the texts, their authors, and the larger settings in which they were written.

Contents:
1. Hearing Voices in Late Antiquity: An Aural Approach to Augustine's Confessions
William North
2. Confessor Saints and the Origins of Monasticism: The Lives of Saints Antony and Martin
John M. McCulloh
3. The Barbarian Ethos: The Germania, Beowulf, and the Life of Saint Boniface
Judith Beall
4. The Written World of Gregory of Tours
Sam Collins
5. Two Lives of Saint Radegund
Jason Glenn
6. The Avenging Abbot: Gregory the Great and His Life of Saint Benedict
Carole Straw
7. Crime and Punishment: Anglo-Saxon Law Codes
Kathleen Casey
8. Conversion, Miracles, and the Creation of a People in Bede's Ecclesiastical History
Jay Rubenstein
9. Between Two Empires: Einhard and His Charles the Great
Jason Glenn
10. Divine Lessons in an Imperfect World: Bernard of Angers and The Book of Sainte Foy's Miracles
Kathleen Stewart Fung
11. William of Poitiers Talks about War
Jay Rubenstein
12. Epic Values: The Song of Roland
Susan P. Millinger
13. Galbert of Bruges: The Notary as Poet
Lawrence R. Jannuzzi
14. Odo of Deuil's The Journey of Louis VII to the East: Between The Song of Roland and Joinville's Life of Saint Louis
Rudi Paul Lindner
15. Encountering the Cid
Helen Nader
16. Wondrous Crusade Encounters: Usamah ibn Munqidh's Book of Learning by Example
Adnan Husain
17. Between History and Literature: Chretien de Troyes's Lancelot and Marie de France's Lais
Amy G. Remensnyder
18. Walter Daniel's Life of Aelred of Rievaulx: The Heroism of Intelligence and the Miracle of Love
Katherine Christensen
19. Richard of Devizes: The Monk Who Forgot to be Medieval
Nancy Partner
20. Mission to Crusade: Friar William of Rubruck's Journey to the Mongols
Adnan Husain
21. Saint Francis and Salimbene de Adam: The Franciscan Experience of Family
Victoria M. Morse
22. Cities and Kingship in the Medieval West: Joinville's Louis IX and Paris
John Tuthill
23. The Virgin and the King: Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria
Amy G. Remensnyder
24. Moving the Masses: Cola di Rienzo, the Anonimo Romano, and the Roman Crowd
Jennifer A. Heindl
25. Christine de Pizan on Gossip, Misogyny, and Possibility
Dallas G. Denery II
26. Why Margery Kempe is Annoying and Why We Should Care
Clementine Oliver