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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
4 Volumes
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First Edition
Robert E. Bjork
1,962 pages
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Over 500 b+w half tones and 50 maps
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276x219mm
978-0-19-866262-4
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Hardback
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24 June 2010
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This item is printed to order. Items which are printed to order are normally despatched and charged within 5-10 days.
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- The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages is a major new four-volume reference resource for all aspects of European history, society, religion, and culture, from 500 to 1500
- Includes over 5,000 A-Z entries, written by more than 800 international scholars
- Ten geographical editors and sixteen topical editors, for topics from Archaeology to Technology, have ensured the broadest and most balanced coverage possible
- Separate entries of 2,000 words each on women, and 1,000 words each on children, in all of the geographical areas represented as well as in Jewish and Islamic society
- Unusually broad coverage of topics such as music, medicine, and technology
- Covers neighbouring civilizations including the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic dynasties, and Asiatic peoples such as the Avars and the Mongols
- Every entry includes an up-to-date bibliography
- Extensive cross-referencing, a general index, and a thematic listing of entries ensure the reader can find the information they need quickly, and enhance browsing
- Over 500 carefully selected illustrations and 50 maps complement the text
- Introductory offer: £325.00 until 31st July 2010, £375.00 thereafter
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages is a major new reference resource for all key aspects of European history, society, religion, and culture from 500 to 1500. Since neighbouring areas of Asia and North Africa impinged on and helped shape the civilization of the West, relevant aspects of the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic dynasties, and Asiatic peoples such as the Avars and the Mongols are included. It is designed both for medievalists, who need a detailed and reliable reference tool for their own research and teaching, and for non-specialists, who need an accessible guide to the study of the Middle Ages. All entries are written with both
audiences in mind. Over 800 scholars, guided by an international advisory board of five and an international editorial board of 26, have written the over 5,000 entries, and these entries have been lavishly supplemented by more than 500 illustrations and 50 maps. Each entry contains a brief bibliography.
Distinguishing this research resource are its balanced coverage of both the whole geographical extent of the European Middle Ages and sixteen major topics centrally important to the study of the period. Ten members of the editorial board have ensured ample coverage of geographical regions: France, Germany and Austria, Spain and Portugal, Italy, Sicily, and Latin Greece, the Low Countries, England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, Scandinavia and Iceland, and Central and
Eastern Europe. In addition sixteen members of the board have ensured similar coverage of major international topics: art and architecture, archaeology, science, medicine, technology, law, ecclesiastical history, intellectual history, philosophy, social and economic history, Romance, Germanic, and Slavic languages and literatures, Islam, Judaica, medieval Latin, and music and liturgy. There are also separate and substantial entries on women and children in each of the geographical areas represented and in Jewish and Islamic society.Readership: From the international community of professional medievalists to academics, teachers, and students in related areas of the humanities, and some general readers with a
serious interest in the period. It will appeal to libraries from school to university level.
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Robert E. Bjork, Arizona State University Contributors:
GENERAL EDITOR
Robert E. Bjork
Foundation Professor of English and Director
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Arizona State University
ADVISORY BOARD
Giles Constable, FBA, FMA
Professor Emeritus
School of Historical Studies
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, NJ
Helen Cooper, FBA
Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English
Magdalene College
University
of Cambridge
R. R. Davies, FBA [deceased]
Former Chichele Chair of Medieval History
All Souls College
University of Oxford
Roberta Frank, FMAA
Marie Borroff Professor of English
University of Yale
Professor Edward James
Professor of History
University College Dublin
EDITORIAL BOARD
SCANDINAVIA
Theodore M. Andersson
Professor Emeritus of Germanic Studies
Stanford University
CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
János M. Bak
Professor Emeritus
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
and
Central European University, Budapest
FRANCE
Elizabeth A. R. Brown, FMAA
Professor Emerita of History
Graduate School and Brooklyn College
CUNY
ITALY, SICILY, AND LATIN GREECE
Gene Brucker, FMAA, FBA
Shepard Professor Emeritus of History
University of California, Berkeley
SCOTLAND, IRELAND, AND WALES
R. R. Davies
Advisory Board. See above.
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY
Stephan R. Epstein [deceased]
Formerly Professor of Economic History
London School of Economics and Political Science
MUSIC AND THE LITURGY
Margot
E. Fassler
Robert Tangeman Professor of Music History
Yale University
SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Michael S. Flier
Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology
Harvard University
SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
Paul H. Freedman, FMAA
Department of History
Yale University
ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Simon Gaunt
Professor of French
King's College, London
ENGLAND
John B. Gillingham, FBA
Emeritus Professor of History
London School of Economics and Political Science
LAW
Richard H. Helmholz, FMAA
Professor of Law
University of Chicago
ARCHAEOLOGY
John Hines
Professor, School of History and Archaeology
Cardiff University
GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
C. Stephen Jaeger, FMAA
Gutgsell Professor (Emeritus)
University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Herbert L. Kessler, FMAA, FAAAS
University of Chicago
GERMANY AND AUSTRIA
Felice Lifshitz
Professor of History
Florida International University
SCIENCE
David C. Lindberg, FMAA
Hilldale Professor Emeritus of the History of Science
University of Wisconsin
TECHNOLOGY
Pamela O. Long
independent historian
PHILOSOPHY
David Luscombe, FBA
Emeritus Research Professor of Mediaeval History
University of Sheffield
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY
Joseph H. Lynch, FMAA [deceased]
Formerly Distinguished University Professor and Joe R. Engle Designated Professor of the History of Christianity
Ohio State University
JUDAICA
Ivan G. Marcus
Frederick P. Rose Professor of Jewish History and of Religious Studies
Yale University
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Steven P. Marrone
Professor of
History
Tufts University
ISLAM
Ian Netton
Sharjah Professor of Islamic Studies
University of Exeter
LOW COUNTRIES
David Nicholas
Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor Emeritus of History
Clemson University
SCOTLAND, IRELAND, WALES
Huw Pryce
Professor of History
University of Wales (Bangor)
GERMANY AND AUSTRIA
Timothy Reuter [deceased]
Formerly Professor of Medieval History
Southampton University
MEDICINE
Linda Ehrsam Voigts, FMAA
Curators' Professor of English Emerita
University of Missouri
Kansas City
MEDIEVAL LATIN
Jan Ziolkowski, FMAA
Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin
Harvard University
There are also c.800 contributors, details available on request.
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Volume 1
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Editors and Contributors
Thematic Listing of Entries
Abbreviations
Note to the Reader
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages A-C
Volume 2
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages D-J
Volume 3
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages J-Q
Volume 4
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages R-Z
Medieval Popes and Antipopes
Index of Variant Place Names
General Index
Picture Acknowledgements
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