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1. Theorizing Medieval Geopolitics

   War and World Order in the Age of the Crusades

   By Andrew Latham

   Series: Routledge Research in Medieval Studies

   Over the past two decades or so, medieval geopolitics have come to occupy an increasingly prominent place in the collective imagination—and writings—of International Relations scholars. Although these accounts differ significantly in terms of their respective analytical assumptions, theoretical...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
2. Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200-1500

   Edited by Harilaos Kitsikopoulos

   Series: Routledge Research in Medieval Studies

   Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200-1500 addresses one of the classic subjects on economic history: the process of aggregate economic growth and the crisis that engulfed the European continent during the late Middle Ages. This was not an ordinary crisis. During the period 1200-1500, Europe...

   Published September 22nd 2011 by Routledge
3. Pluralism in the Middle Ages

   Hybrid Identities, Conversion, and Mixed Marriages in Medieval Iberia

   By Ragnhild Johnsrud Zorgati

   Series: Routledge Research in Medieval Studies

   The challenges of cultural and religious diversity that face European and American societies today are not a new phenomenon. People in the Middle Ages lived in pluralistic societies, and they found highly interesting ways of dealing with religious and cultural diversity. While religious and...

   Published September 19th 2011 by Routledge
4. Women Pilgrims in Late Medieval England

   By Susan S. Morrison

   Series: Routledge Research in Medieval Studies

   This thought-provoking book explores medieval perceptions of pilgrimage, gender and space. It examines real life evidence for the widespread presence of women pilgrims, as well as secular and literary texts concerning pilgrimage and women pilgrims represented in the visual arts. Women pilgrims were...

   Published July 12th 2000 by Routledge
5. Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages

   By Kathleen Coyne Kelly

   Series: Routledge Research in Medieval Studies

   This book challenges the belief that female virginity can be reliably and unambiguously defined, tested and verified. Kelly analyses a variety of medieval Western European texts - including medical treatises and their Classical antecedents - and historical and legal documents. The main focus is the...

   Published February 2nd 2000 by Routledge
6. The Generation of Identity in Late Medieval Hagiography

   Speaking the Saint

   By Gail Ashton, Gail Ashton Nfa

   Series: Routledge Research in Medieval Studies

   In this interdisciplinary and boundary-breaking study, Gail Ashton examines the portrayals of women saints in a wide range of medieval texts. She deploys the French feminist critical theory of Cixous and Iriguray to illuminate these depictions of women by men and to further our understanding of...

   Published October 27th 1999 by Routledge