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Author Pegg, Mark Gregory, 1963- author

Title Beatrice's last smile : a new history of the Middle Ages / Mark Gregory Pegg
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 487 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), map
Contents What God? (203-337) -- Swansongs (337-476) -- The flutter of blackbirds (440-613) -- Mad poets (597-735) -- An everlasting star in the west (722-824) -- The harrying of the heathen (825-972) -- Hermits in mail (972-1099) -- Uncle, what troubles you? (1099-1220) -- Love moves the sun and stars (1209-1321) -- Only death wakes us from dreaming (1321-1431)
Summary A grand and sweeping narrative of the history of the Middle Ages from the fourth to the sixteenth centuries, encompassing the Eurasian landmass from North Africa to the Asian Steppes and Western Europe. Mark Gregory Pegg sheds light on how Christianity and Islam evolved out of a shared cultural and religious ferment, and what this dynamic exchange meant for the development of the West
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 20, 2023)
Subject Religion -- History -- To 1500
Religions -- Relations.
Religion and state.
Middle Ages.
Middle Ages
Religion
Religion and state
Religions -- Relations
History.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2023000191
ISBN 9780197690291
0197690297
0199392811
9780199392827
019939282X
9780191925672
0191925675
9780199392810
9780192575579
0192575570
9780192575562
0192575562
Other Titles New history of the Middle Ages