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The Long Morning of Medieval Europe - New Directions in Early Medieval Studies (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Long Morning of Medieval Europe - New Directions in Early Medieval Studies (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Recent advances in research show that the distinctive features of
high medieval civilization began developing centuries earlier than
previously thought. The era once dismissed as a "Dark Age" now
turns out to have been the long morning of the medieval millennium:
the centuries from AD 500 to 1000 witnessed the dawn of
developments that were to shape Europe for centuries to come. In
2004, historians, art historians, archaeologists, and literary
specialists from Europe and North America convened at Harvard
University for an interdisciplinary conference exploring new
directions in the study of that long morning of medieval Europe,
the early Middle Ages. Invited to think about what seemed to each
the most exciting new ways of investigating the early development
of western European civilization, this impressive group of
international scholars produced a wide-ranging discussion of
innovative types of research that define tomorrow's field today.
The contributors, many of whom rarely publish in English, test
approaches extending from using ancient DNA to deducing cultural
patterns signified by thousands of medieval manuscripts of saints'
lives. They examine the archaeology of slave labor, economic
systems, disease history, transformations of piety, the experience
of power and property, exquisite literary sophistication, and the
construction of the meaning of palace spaces or images of the
divinity. The book illustrates in an approachable style the
vitality of research into the early Middle Ages, and the signal
contributions of that era to the future development of western
civilization. The chapters cluster around new approaches to five
key themes: the early medieval economy; early medieval holiness;
representation and reality in early medieval literary art;
practices of power in an early medieval empire; and the
intellectuality of early medieval art and architecture. Michael
McCormick's brief introductions open each part of the volume;
synthetic essays by accomplished specialists conclude them. The
editors summarize the whole in a synoptic introduction. All Latin
terms and citations and other foreign-language quotations are
translated, making this work accessible even to undergraduates. The
Long Morning of Medieval Europe: New Directions in Early Medieval
Studies presents innovative research across the wide spectrum of
study of the early Middle Ages. It exemplifies the promising
questions and methodologies at play in the field today, and the
directions that beckon tomorrow.
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