"The Making of Europe": Essays in Honour of Robert Bartlett

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In '"The Making of Europe" Essays in Honour of Robert Bartlett', a group of distinguished contributors analyse processes of conquest, colonization and cultural change in Europe in the tenth to fourteenth centuries. They assess and develop theses presented by Robert Bartlett in his famous book of that name. The geographical scope extends from Iceland to the Islamic Mediterranean, from Spain to Poland. Themes covered range from law to salt production, from aristocratic culture in the Christian West to Islamic views of Christendom. Like the volume that it honours, the present book extends our understanding of both medieval and present day Europe. Abbreviations vii List of Contributors viii Introductory Robert Bartlett: A Profile / John Hudson and William Ian Miller 1 'The Making of Europe': A Brief Summary / John Hudson 5 The Carolingian Past in Post-Carolingian Europe / Simon MacLean 11 Part 1. Geographical Perspectives Introduction to Part 1 32 1. England and 'The Making of Europe': Conquest, Colonization, and Cultural Change / John Hudson 33 2. The Europeanization of Scandinavia / Sverre Bagge 53 3. Where’s Iceland? / William Ian Miller 76 4. The Duke as Entrepeneur: The Piast Ruler and the Economy of Medieval Poland / Piotr Górecki 96 5. Narratives of Expansion, Last Wills, Poor Expectations and the Conquest of Seville (1248) / Ana Rodríguez 123 Part 2. Thematic Perspectives Introduction to Part 2 144 6. Military Technology and Political Resistance: Castles, Fleets and the Changing Face of Comital Rebellion in England and Normandy, c. 1026–1087 / Matthew Strickland 145 7. The Evils of the Court: Judicial Melodramas in Medieval French Literature / Stephen D. White 184 8. Historical Writing and the Experience of Europeanization: The View from St. Albans / Björn Weiler 205 9. The Making and Unmaking of Rural Europe / Esther Pascua Echegaray 244 10. Landed Property and Government Finance in the Early ʿAbbasid Caliphate / Hugh Kennedy 264 11. Constructing Christendom / John Tolan 277 Bibliography of Books and Scholarly Articles by Robert Bartlett / Compiled by Nora Bartlett 299 Index of Names 307 Index of Places 314