A distinguished Oxford historian presents an absorbing study of the main personalities and the influences that molded the history of Western Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth century, describing the chief forms of social, political, and religious organization. “A book of rare value.”―Sidney Painter, American Historical Review

Making of Middle Ages

History

Southern, R. W.

Europe

Yale University Press

The concept of an ordered human society, both religious and secular, as an expression of a divinely ordered universe was central to medieval thought. In the West the political and religious community were inextricably bound together, and because the Church was so intimately involved with the world, any history of it must take into account the development of medieval society.
Professor Southern's book covers the period from the eighth to the sixteenth century. After sketching the main features of each medieval age, he deals in greater detail with the Papacy, the relations between Rome and her rival Constantinople, the bishops and archbishops, and the various religious orders, providing in all a superb history of the period.

Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages (The Penguin History of the Church) (v. 2)

Penguin??Books

The concept of an ordered human society, both religious and secular, as an expression of a divinely ordered universe was central to medieval thought. In the West the political and religious community were inextricably bound together, and because the Church was so intimately involved with the world, any history of it must take into account the development of medieval society. Professor Southern's book covers the period from the eighth to the sixteenth century. After sketching the main features of each medieval age, he deals in greater detail with the Papacy, the relations between Rome and her rival Constantinople, the bishops and archbishops, and the various religious orders, providing in all a superb history of the period.

Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages (Hist of the Church)

A study of the intellectual development and influence of one of the most independent and vigorous Englishmen of the Middle Ages, this book studies Robert Grosseteste, a man of humble birth, who lived for many years in obscurity and emerged only late in life as a national figure.  As a scientist, theologian, and pastoral leader, he was rooted in an English tradition predating the Norman Conquest.  For this second edition of this comprehensive study of one of England's great intellects, Southern has revised his text to take account of the most recent scholarship.

Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe

Biographies & Memoirs

Oxford University Press

Robert Grosseteste was one of the most independent and vigorous Englishmen of the Middle Ages--a medieval Dr. Johnson in his powers of mind and personality.  Of humble birth, he lived for many years in obscurity and emerged only late in life as a national figure, deeply conservative and profoundly critical of the contemporary world.  As a scientist, theologian, and pastoral leader, he was rooted in an English tradition going back beyond the Norman Conquest. This comprehensive study of one of England's great intellects by the late Sir Richard W. Southern of Oxford University  is an important contribution to the history of ideas.

Clarendon Press/Oxford

The Making of the Middle Ages

A distinguished Oxford historian presents an absorbing study of the main personalities and the influences that molded the history of Western Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth century, describing the chief forms of social, political, and religious organization. “A book of rare value.”―Sidney Painter, American Historical Review

Making of the Middle Ages

World

New Haven & London Yale Univeristy Press

This is a study of Anglo-Norman monastic life and thought between about 1060 and 1130 as seen through the lives and writings of two men: Anslem, Archbishop of Canterbury, the most penetrating intellect between Augustine and Aquinas and the more commonplace observant Eadmer, his biographer. Taken together, the writings of the two men embrace almost every side of contemporary monastic experience. Professor Southern surveys all these aspects as they affect the writings of Anselm and Eadmer. In the first part of this book, he studies Anselm's development as a writer and statesman. In the second part, attention is directed to the community at Canterbury, which provided the background for Anselm's life as archbishop and gave him, in Eadmer, his closest disciple and biographer. The work concludes with a study of Eadmer's writings, especially of his Life of Anselm and with an assessment of the importance of the two men as complementary examples of the Benedictine life of the period.

Saint Anselm and his Biographer: A Study of Monastic Life and Thought 1059–c.1130

Religion & Spirituality

Cambridge University Press

This is a study of Anglo-Norman monastic life and thought between about 1060 and 1130 as seen through the lives and writings of two men: Anslem, Archbishop of Canterbury, the most penetrating intellect between Augustine and Aquinas and the more commonplace observant Eadmer, his biographer. Taken together, the writings of the two men embrace almost every side of contemporary monastic experience. Professor Southern surveys all these aspects as they affect the writings of Anselm and Eadmer. In the first part of this book, he studies Anselm's development as a writer and statesman. In the second part, attention is directed to the community at Canterbury, which provided the background for Anselm's life as archbishop and gave him, in Eadmer, his closest disciple and biographer. The work concludes with a study of Eadmer's writings, especially of his Life of Anselm and with an assessment of the importance of the two men as complementary examples of the Benedictine life of the period.

Medieval Humanism and Other Studies

Harper&Row

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Making of Middle Ages

Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages (The Penguin History of the Church) (v. 2)

Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages (Hist of the Church)

Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe

Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe

The Making of the Middle Ages

Making of the Middle Ages

Saint Anselm and his Biographer: A Study of Monastic Life and Thought 1059–c.1130

Saint Anselm and his Biographer: A Study of Monastic Life and Thought 1059–c.1130

Medieval Humanism and Other Studies