Chris Given-Wilson. The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages: The Fourteenth-Century Political Community. New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall. 1987. Pp. xxii, 222. $39.95.

1989 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 483-484
Author(s):  
Lorraine C. Attreed
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Late Middle Ages

Renana Bartal, Gender, Piety, and Production in Fourteenth-Century English Apocalypse Manuscripts. London and New York: Routledge, 2016, xv, 181 pp., 4 color plates, 79 b/w ill.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 539-540
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Illuminated Manuscripts ◽  
Bodleian Library ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Extensive Coverage ◽  
To Come ◽  
Previous Scholarship

The late Middle Ages witnessed a tremendous growth in interest concerning the end of all life, the apocalypse. This found most vivid expression in relevant illuminated manuscripts, three of which Renana Bartal discusses in her study here: Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 1803; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 38; and Brussels, Bibliothèque royale, MS II 282, all of them produced in England at the end of the fourteenth century. All of them have already received extensive coverage by previous scholarship, and Bartal simply continues with that tradition, trying hard to offer new perspectives, which are, to be honest, hard to come by now.

The Virtues of Economy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Political Society ◽  
Future Role ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Distinct Role

The humanist perception of fourteenth-century Rome as a slumbering ruin awaiting the Renaissance and the return of papal power has cast a long shadow on the historiography of the city. Challenging the view, this book argues that Roman political culture underwent dramatic changes in the late Middle Ages, with profound and lasting implications for the city's subsequent development. The book examines the transformation of Rome's governing elites as a result of changes in the city's economic, political, and spiritual landscape. It explores this shift through the history of Roman political society, its identity as an urban commune, and its once-and-future role as the spiritual capital of Latin Christendom. Tracing the contours of everyday Roman politics, the book reframes the reestablishment of papal sovereignty in Rome as the product of synergy between papal ambitions and local political culture. More broadly, it emphasizes Rome's distinct role in evolution of medieval Italy's city-communes.

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