Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Medieval Textbooks

This study provides a new overview of chivalry, which formed a fundamental element of medieval society. Chivalry shaped elite warrior status and profession, influenced warfare and violence, took on religious piety, and shaped ideas of love and relations between men and women of high status throughout half a millennium of early European history.

This book is a comprehensive study of the constitutional developments of the monastic and religious orders in Britain between 1000 and 1300, and their place within the political, social and economic fabric of the wider community, covering Wales and Scotland as well as England.

This comprehensive survey of the history of the Church in Western Europe, considers the Church both as a set of institutions and as a spiritual body. It examines the religious belief and practice from 900-1050 as well as the rise of the papacy and the 'reform movement.'

This book is a study of the transformation of the role of the pope in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries.