Debating medieval Europe serves as an entry point for studying and teaching medieval history. Rather than simply presenting foundational knowledge or introducing sources, it provides the reader with frameworks for understanding the distinctive historiography of the period, digging beneath the historical accounts provided by other textbooks to expose the contested foundations of apparently settled narratives. This second volume addresses the central and later Middle Ages, covering the period c.1050-c.1450. The chapters cover such topics as the papacy, the Empire and the German lands, the British Isles, the Crusades and the Latin East, and incorporates the very latest epidemiological research in its presentation of the Black Death. It features a highly distinguished selection of medieval historians, including Graham Loud, Amy Livingstone and Len Scales.

How to Use This Book: A Guide for Students - Stephen Mossman
1 The papal monarchy: from the Gregorian reform to Avignon (c.1050-1378) - Barbara Bombi
2 The Empire under the Salians and Staufen - T. J. H. McCarthy
3 Of Capetians and Cistercians: Francia c.1000-c.1200 - Amy Livingstone
4 The new urban landscape: the Italian communes and the friars - David Foote
5 The Cathars in Occitania: a case study in religious dissent - Claire Taylor and Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel
6 The Latin East and the Crusades - Natasha Hodgson
7 The Kingdom of Sicily from Roger II to the Sicilian Vespers (c.1100-1282) - Graham A. Loud
8 Spain in the age of the reconquista (c.1100-1492) - Fernando Arias Guillén
9 The British Isles, c. 1100-1485 - Jonathan Gledhill with Adrian Jobson
10 The German-speaking lands in the later Middle Ages - Len Scales
11 The schism and the conciliar movement - Thomas A. Fudge
12 Plague, demography and society in late medieval Europe - Philip Slavin (University of Stirling)
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