xix, 745 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

1. Introduction / Peter Linehan and Janet L. Nelson -- 2. Courts in East and West / Jonathan Shepard -- 3. At the Spanish frontier / Peter Linehan -- 4. Muslims in Christian Iberia, 1000-1526 : varieties of Mudejar experience / David Nirenberg -- 5. How many medieval Europes? : the "pagans" of Hunga...

13. The unique favour of penance : the church and the people, c.800-c.1100 / Sarah Hamilton -- 14. Gender negotiations in France during the Middle Ages : the literary evidence / Linda Paterson -- 15. Symbolism and medieval religious thought / David d'Avray -- 16. Sexuality in the Middle Ages / Ruth...

24. Perceptions of an early medieval urban landscape / Cristina La Rocca -- 25. Assembly politics in Western Europe from the eighth century to the twelfth / Timothy Reuter -- 26. Beyond the comune : the Italian city-state and its inheritance / Mario Ascheri -- 27. Timbuktu and Europe : trade, cities...

34. Aspects of the early medieval peasant economy as revealed in the Polyptych of Prüm / Yoshiki Morimoto -- 35. Privilege in medieval societies from the twelfth to the fourteenth century, or, How the exception proves the rule / Alain Boureau -- 36. What did the twelfth-century Renaissance mean? /...