Reading the Middle Ages: Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World

by Barbara H. Rosenwein

Reading the Middle Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic Worl...

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Medieval, Reference

594 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2006

About the author

Prof. Barbara Rosenwein was the Humanitas Visiting Professor in Historiography at the University of Oxford for the year 2014-2015.

Barbara H. Rosenwein (Ph.D. (1974), B.A. (1966), University of Chicago) is a professor at Loyola University Chicago. An internationally renowned historian, she has been a guest professor at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France; the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France; the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, and most recently at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Since 2009, Rosenwein has been an affiliated research scholar at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University in London. She was a scholar in residence at the American Academy in Rome in 2001-2002 and was elected Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2003.

Reviews

[Biblio Curious]

I must read this with the book's suggested history book. I'm a sucker for sourcebooks and this one is exquisite in the samples provided. It seems like a 1st or 2nd year undergraduate level book.

Reading the Middle Ages was designed to be read with A Short History of the Middle Ages
http://www.utphistorymatters.com/a-sh...

The timelines and resources on their website give a fabulous overview of the book's contents. The timelines are offered in PDF, printer friendly format. What's not to love about that? :)
http://www.utphistorymatters.com/read...

Sadly, it's going back to my library, unread ... but only for now.

[Jewels · Rating 3 out of 5]

This had a good smattering of different types of essays, documents, selections from religious and philosophical manuals, etc... and is a good way to get a feel for how people wrote things out or approached ideas from previous centuries. It was a bit dry, but then legal documents, bills of sale, etc... usually are.

[chuchu · Rating 5 out of 5]

So goated. I was assigned only select excerpts for a class and I ended up reading the whole thing! I ♥️ PRIMARY SOURCES

[Nranger7 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book of primary source material.

[Gerard]

Just an assigned textbook for a Medieval Studies class I took this semester. Comprehensive and readable for an introductory college class.