TEAMS -- Bibliography of General Books on the Middle Ages

Bibliography of General Books on the Middle Ages
Compiled by Peter Potter, Penn State Press

Surveys (broad but erudite)

Barber, Malcolm, The Two Cities: Medieval Europe, 1050-1320 (Routledge, 1992

Bartlett, Robert, The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350 (Princeton, 1993)

Campbell, James, The Anglo-Saxons (Cornell, 1982)

Collins, Roger, Early Medieval Europe, 300-1000. Second Edition. (St. Martin’s, 1999)

------, Early Medieval Spain: Unity in Diversity, 400-1000. (St. Martin’s, 1995)

DeVries, Kelly, Medieval Military Technology (Broadview, 1992)

Duby, Georges, France in the Middle Ages, 987-1460: From Hugh Capet to Joan of Arc (Blackwell, 1991)

Geary, Patrick J., Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World (Oxford, 1988)

Gimpel, Jean, The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages (Holt, 1976)

Haverkamp, Alfred, Medieval Germany, 1056-1273 (Oxford, 1988)

Huizinga, Johan, The Autumn of the Middle Ages (1919; new English translation by Chicago, 1996)

Keen, Chivalry (Yale, 1984)

LeGoff, Jacques, Medieval Civilization, 400-1500 (Blackwell, 1989)

------, Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages (Chicago, 1980)

Prestwich, Michael, Armies and Warfare in the Midle Ages: The English Experience (Yale, 1996)

Riley-Smith, Jonathan, Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades (Oxford, 1997)

-------, The Crusades: A Short History (Yale, 1987)

Sourdel, Dominique, Medieval Islam (Routledge, 1983)

Southern, Richard W., The Making of the Middle Ages (Yale, 1953)

Watts, Sheldon, Epidemics and History: Disease, Power, and Imperialism (Yale, 1997)

Intellectual History/History of Ideas

Cohn, Norman, Noah’s Flood: The Genesis Story in Western Thought (Yale, 1996)
------, The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages. Revised edition (Oxford, 1970)
Frankforter, A. Daniel, The Medieval Millennium: An Introduction (Prentice Hall, 1999)
Gilson, Etienne, Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages (Scribners, 1938)
------. The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas (Random House, 1956)
Haskins, Charles Homer, The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century (World, 1957)
Kantorowicz, Ernst, The King’s Two Bodies A Study of Medieval Political Theology (Princeton, 1957)
Marenbon, John, Early Medieval Philosophy, 480-1150: An Introduction (Routledge, 1983)
Ozment, Steven, The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe (Yale, 1980)
Pelikan, Jaroslav, Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture (Yale, 1985)
------, Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture (Yale, 1996)
Schmitt, Jean-Claude, Ghosts in the Middle Ages: The Living and the Dead in Medieval Society (Chicago, 1999)
Southern, Richard W., Medieval Humanism, And Other Stories (Blackwell, 1970)

Religion and the Church

Barber, Malcolm, The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple (Cambridge, 1994)

Brown, Peter, The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (Chicago, 1981)

Bynum, Caroline Walker, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (California, 1987)

------, Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages (California, 1982)

Dickens, A. G., The English Reformation. Second Edition. (Penn State, 1991)

Duffy, Eamon, Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes (Yale, 1997)

-------, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 (Yale, 1992)

Grundmann, Herbert, Religious Movements in the Middle Ages : The Historical Links between Heresy, the Mendicant Orders, and the Women's Religious Movement in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Century (Notre Dame, 1995)

Kamen, Henry, The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision (Yale, 1998)

Kieckhefer, Richard, Magic in the Middle Ages (Cambridge, 1989)

Kieckhefer, Richard, Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century (Penn State, 1998)

Knowles, David, The Monastic Orders of England. Second Edition. (Cambridge, 1963)

Kors, Alan, and Edward Peters, eds., Witchcraft in Europe, 1100-1700: A Documentary History. (Pennsylvania, 1972)

Lawrence, C. H., Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Medieval Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages. Second Edition. (Longman, 1989)

Leclercq, Jean, The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture (Fordham, 1961)

MacMullen, Ramsay, Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries (Yale 1997)

Mayr-Harting, The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England. Third Edition (Penn State, 1991)

Russell, Jeffrey Burton, A History of Heaven: The Singing Silence (Princeton, 1997)

------, Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages (Cornell, 1984)

Sire, H. J. A., The Knights of Malta (Yale, 1994)

Southern, Richard W., Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages (Eerdmans, 1970).

Tellenbach, Gerd, Church, State, and Christian Society at the Time of the Investiture Contest. Reprint Edition. (Toronto/MART, 1991)

Vauchez, Andre, The Laity in the Middle Ages: Religious Beliefs and Devotional Practices (Notre Dame, 1993)

------, Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages (Cambridge, 1997)

Society

Balestracci, Duccio, The Renaissance in the Fields: Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Peasant (Penn State, 1999)

Bloch, Marc, Feudal Society. 2 vols. (Chicago, 1961)

Brundage, James A., Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe (Chicago, 1987)

Cohen, Mark R., Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages (Princeton, 1994)

Duby, Georges, The Age of the Cathedrals: Art and Society, 980-1420 (Chicago, 1981)

------, The Early Growth of the European Economy: Warriors and Peasants from the Seventh to the Twelfth Century (Cornell, 1974)

------, The Knight, the Lady, and the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France (Pantheon, 1983)

------, The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined (Chicago, 1980)

Hanawalt, Barbara, Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History (Oxford, 1993)

------, The Ties that Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England (Oxford, 1986)

Henisch, Bridget Ann, Fast and Feast: Food in Medieval Society (Penn State, 1976)

Herlihy, David, Medieval Housholds (Harvard, 1985)

Jordan, William Chester, The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century (Princeton, 1998)

Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel, Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error (Vintage, 1979)

Mollat, Michel, The Poor in the Middle Ages: An Essay in Social History (Yale, 1986)

Nirenberg, David, Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages (Princeton, 1996)

Pirenne, Henri, Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade (Princeton, 1952)

Redon, Odile, Françoise Sabban, and Silvano Serventi, The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italy (Chicago, 1999)Riche, Pierre, Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne (Pennsylvania, 1978)

------, Education and Culture in the Barbarian West: The Sixth Through Eighth Centuries (South Carolina: 1978)

Rösener, Werner, Peasants in the Middle Ages (Illinois, 1992)

Spufford, Peter, Money and Its Use in Medieval Europe (Cambridge, 1988)

White, Lynn, Jr., Medieval Technology and Social Change (Oxford, 1966)

Woolgar, C. M., The Great Household in Late Medieval England (Yale, 1999)

Women

Atkinson, Clarissa W., The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Middle Ages (Cornell, 1991)

Dronke, Peter, Women Writers of the Middle Ages: A Critical Study of Texts from Perpetua (d. 203) to Marguerite Porete (d. 1310) (Cambridge, 1984)

Ennen, Edith, The Medieval Woman (Blackwell, 1989)

Gies, Frances and Joseph, Women in the Middle Ages (Crowell, 1978)

Irigaray, Luce, This Sex Which is Not One (Cornell, 1985)

Labarge, Margaret Wade, Women in Medieval Life: A Small Sound of the Trumpet (Hamish Hamilton, 1986)

Shulamith, Shahar, The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle Ages (Methuen, 1983)

Biographies

Abels, Richard, Alfred the Great: War, Kingship, and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Longman, 1999.

Barlow, Frank, Thomas Becket (California, 1986)

Brown, Peter, Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (California, 1967)

Clanchy, M. T., Abelard: A Medieval Life (Blackwell, 1997)

Collins, Roger, Charlemagne (Toronto, 1998)

Flanagan, Sabina, Hildegard of Bingen: A Visionary Life (Routledge, 1989)

Gillingham, John, Richard I (Yale, 1999)

Gilson, Etienne, Heloise and Abelard (Regnery, 1951)

Kelly, Amy, Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings (Harvard, 1950)

Marius, Richard, Martin Luther: The Christian Between God and Death (Harvard, 1999)

------, Thomas More: A Biography (Knopf, 1984)

Nelson, Janet, Charles the Bald (Longman, 1992)

Painter, Sidney, William Marshall: Knight-Errant, Baron & Regent of England. Reprint Edition. (Toronto/MART Series, 1982)

Pernoud, Régine, and Marie-Véronique Clin, Joan of Arc: Her Story (St. Martin’s, 1999)

Riche, Pierre, The Carolingians: A Family Who Forged Europe (Pennsylvania, 1993)

Southern, Richard W., Saint Anselm: Portrait in a Landscape (Cambridge, 1991)

Stenton, Frank, William the Conqueror and the Rule of the Normans. (Barnes & Noble, 1966)