Medieval Thought and Historiography by Giles Constable - 9780367887162

Medieval Thought and HistoriographyAuthor(s): Giles Constable\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367887162, 978-0367887162\nSynopsis\nCollected Studies CS1065\n\nWe assume that we have a clear understanding of how people in the Middle Ages thought and which attitudes they struck but in reality this is a subject of enormous complexity of which conclusions can only be drawn via painstaking archival research and decades of study. Giles Constable has spent a career analysing these forces and impulses and this new collection draws together his major findings on a host of topics including frontiers, metaphors, religious life and spirituality, and concepts of political theory.