The essays in this volume, presented in honour of John O. Ward, explore the role of rhetoric in promoting reform and renewal in the Latin West from Peter Abelar

This book provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe over a thousand-year period between c.400 and

Constant J. Mews offers an intellectual biography of two of the best known personalities of the twelfth century. Peter Abelard was a controversial logician at t

At a time when the Battle of Hastings and Magna Carta have become common currency in political debate, this study of the role played by the Norman Conquest in E

This collaborative volume explores how the creation and the crossing of faculty, disciplinary and social boundaries contributed to the development of the mediev