ABOUT THIS BOOK
<div>This interdisciplinary volume sets out to illuminate medieval thought, and to consider how the underlying values of the Middle Ages exerted significant influence in medieval society in the West.</div><div>The book situates the Christian Church in the West as a framing ideology of the Middle Ages, and considers ideology from four angles: as a means of defining power; as a way of managing power; ideology as an influence on daily living and societies; and the ways in which ideology associated with the Middle Ages continues to influence understandings of past and present. A focus on southern European case studies has been chosen as a means of enriching and complicating study of the Middle Ages.</div>

TABLE OF CONTENTS

<div>Foreword, FLOCEL SABATÉ</div><div>1. Ideology in the Middle Ages, FLOCEL SABATÉ</div><div>2. Ideology and social order, PAUL FREEDMAN</div><div>3. Auctoritas, Potestas: concepts of the power in the medieval Spain, ADELINE RUCQUOI</div><div>4. Kingship in Isidore of Seville's historical work: a political interpretation of the two versions, SAMUELE SACCHI</div><div>5. The quest for an ideology in Carolingian times: ecclesiological patterns in the Latin West from the 8th to the early 10th centuries, ALFONSO M. HERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ</div><div>6. The relationship between mentality and ideology: acculturation and Christianization during the Early Middle Ages in Galicia (6th to 11th centuries), JUAN COIRA POCIÑA</div><div>7. Regnum Gothorum and regnum Hispaniae in the Spanish Christian chronicles of the Middle Ages: continuation, end, or translation in the account of the Arab conquest, IVÁN PÉREZ MARINAS</div><div>8. The duel in the Middle Ages, a religious juridical mentality in the medieval West, LUIS ROJAS DONAT</div><div>9. The cruces gemmatae of Oviedo and the use in new liturgical and propagandistic context between the 11th and 12th centuries, RAQUEL ALONSO</div><div>10. Chivalric Ideology in the Chanson d'Aspremont (end of the twelfth century), DOMINIQUE BARTHÉLEMY</div><div>11. Political theory in Ramon Llull's Arbor Scientiae, CHIARA MELATINI</div><div>12. Adoration of the Magi and authority of the Medieval King: an ambiguous correlation, DOINA ELENA CRACIUN</div><div>13. Ideology and civic ideal in French and German cities in the Late Middle Ages Age, GISELE NAEGLE</div><div>14. Markets in the Christian City. Economy and Religion in Italy in the Late Middle Ages, GIACOMO TODESCHINI</div><div>15. The Foundation of the Franciscan Friary of 'Sant Esperit' (Valencia): Observance of the Rule, Economy and Royal Power in the 15th century Crown of Aragon, CHIARA MANCINELLI</div><div>16. The Other Natures of Man: Metamorphosis of the Green Man and the Wild Man in Portuguese medieval art, JOANA FILIPA FONSECA ANTUNES</div><div>17. The Good Captain and the Daring warriors: Military noble models in Zurara's Northern African chronicles, ANDRÉ LUIZ BERTOLI</div><div>18. Between political ideology and legal identity: the reforms of juridical deliberation in Aragon (15th-16th centuries), MARTINE CHARAGEAT<div>19. È da diventare Turchi noialtri: Lorenzo the Magnificent: between a pseudo-dynastical policy and the ottoman model, SOPHIE SALVIATI.<div>20. The Middle Ages: suport for a counter-revolutionary and reactionary ideology: 1830-1944, CHRISTIAN AMALVI</div><div>21. The Middle Ages as a key argument among Spanish intelelctuals at the first half of the 20th century, ANTONIO DE MURCIA</div>