THE WORLDS OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE

This book presents a distinctive and nuanced portrayal of a western world that was sharply divided between its nothern and southern aspects. The author balances the book between the society and politics of both areas, describing also the ways in which the medieval Latin West attempted to understand the unified structure of the human cosmos. The second edition features new illustrations as well s as a sofisticated analysis of gender, along with an examiniation of the relationship between the Mediterranean and Islam.