Timothy Reuter

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 2006 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.

Medieval Polities and Modern Mentalities

An annotated translation of the principal narrative source written from a perspective East of the Rhine for the period in which the Carolingian Empire gave way to a number of successor empires, including the one that would become Germany. An indispensible resource for those studying the ninth century.

Ninth-century Histories, Volume II

The Annals of Fulda

While Karl Leyser was pre-eminent in the English-speaking world as the historian of medieval Germany, his work has increased our understanding of European society as a whole. In particular, he brought to life nobles and ecclesiastics, by combining a profound knowledge of the primary sources with an imaginative ability to understand motives and attitudes. Warriors and Churchmen in the High Middle Ages brings together essays by Karl Leyser's pupils, many of them distinguished historians in their own right, on subjects which he himself illuminated.

Essays Presented to Karl Leyser

Warriors and Churchmen in the High Middle Ages

An authoritative synthesis of the major themes in European fourteenth-century history.

The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 6, C.1300-c.1415

Wortkonkordanz zum Decretum Gratiani: A-C

Gabriel Silagi

The first volume chronologically in a new multi-volume History of Germany, Timothy Reuter's book is the first full-scale survey to appear in English for nearly fifty years of this formative period of German history -- the period in which Germany itself, and many of its internal divisions and characteristics, were created and defined. Filling an important gap, the book is itself a formidable scholarly achievement.

Germany in the Early Middle Ages c. 800-1056

Jonathan Riley-Smith

David Abulafia

Michael Jones

C. T. Allmand

Paul Fouracre

Rosamond McKitterick

David Luscombe

The second 'political' part of the fourth volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History.

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