A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Middle Ages

By Matthew Gabriele

Book Overview

This volume explores a world that thought deeply about imperial power and emperors but one that perhaps never had an "empire" of its own. These synthetic essays from experts across a wide variety of disciplines mine the intellectual world of this period and begin to demolish the myth of the so-called "Dark Ages," showing how the European Middle Ages were illuminated by vigorous debates that echo today. The story of medieval Western empires is both familiar and foreign. It is a story about politics, culture, religion, society, gender, sex, and economics, and how porous the boundaries between those categories can often be.

A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Middle Ages offers a detailed and highly-illustrated account of how we got to where we are, as well as the dangers of not fully understanding why those origins matter.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350358215
• ISBN13: 9781350358218
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"