Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Fundamentals
1: Speaking and Writing
2: Living and Dying
Part II: Affinities
3: Friends and Relations
4: Men and Women
Part III: Resources
5: Labour and Lordship
6: Getting and Giving
Part IV: Ideologies
7: Kingship and Christianity
8: Rome and the Peoples of Europe
Epilogue
Furhter Reading
Chronology
Index

About the Author

Julia Smith is a specialist on gender, religion, and politics in early medieval Europe. She holds the Edwards Chair in Medieval History at the University of Glasgow, having taught in the USA from 1986 to 1995 and at the University of St Andrews from 1995 to 2005. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has recently held research fellowships at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University.

Reviews

Remarkable Gabrel Josipovici, Times Literary Supplement should be read completely by all early medievalists... carefully crafted study and survey Lynette Olson, Reviews in History