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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454742703321

Titolo

Life and thought in the early Middle Ages [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Robert S. Hoyt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, [1968, c1967]

ISBN

0-8166-5791-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Collana

Minnesota paperbacks ; ; MP 11

Altri autori (Persone)

HoytRobert S (Robert Stuart)

Disciplina

909.07

940.1

Soggetti

Middle Ages

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The chapters of this volume originated as public lectures given by the authors in the annual Spring Lecture Series, 1963, sponsored by the General Extension Division of the University of Minnesota."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical footnotes and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Robert S. Hoyt -- The barbarian kings as lawgivers and judges / Katherine Fischer Drew -- Of towns and trade / Robert S. Lopez -- The two levels of feudalism / Joseph R. Strayer -- The image of Christ in the early Middle Ages / Adolf Katzenellenbogen -- The life of the silent majority / Lynn White, Jr -- Beowulf and Bede / John C. McGalliard -- Viking -- Tunnit -- Eskimo / T.J. Oleson -- The Church, reform, and renaissance in the early Middle Ages / Karl F. Morrison.

Sommario/riassunto

The period of the early Middle Ages - from the fourth to the eleventh centuries - used to be commonly called "the dark ages." Now that term has been discarded by scholars, who reject its implications as they recognize increasingly, the historical importan