Table Of Contenti
“The Making of Europe”
© koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2016 | doi 10.1163/97890044311367_001
ii
Robert Bartlett
iii
“The Making of Europe”
Essays in Honour of Robert Bartlett
Edited by
John Hudson
Sally Crumplin
LEIDEN | BOSTON
iv
Cover illustration: Section of an illustrated itinerary to Jerusalem, from London to Beauvais. Royal 14 C
VII f. 2. © The British Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hudson, John, 1962- | Crumplin, Sally. | Bartlett, Robert, 1950-
Title: “The making of Europe” : essays in honour of Robert Bartlett / edited
by John Hudson, Sally Crumplin.
Description: Leiden : Brill, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and
index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015046152 (print) | LCCN 2016004046 (ebook) | ISBN
9789004248397 (hardback : acid-free paper) | ISBN 9789004311367 (e-book) |
ISBN 9789004311367 (E-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Europe--History--476-1492. | Europe--Colonization--History. |
Conquerors--Europe--History--To 1500. | Social history--Medieval,
500-1500. | Social change--Europe--History--To 1500. | Europe--Social
conditions--To 1492. | Bartlett, Robert, 1950- Making of Europe. |
Europe--Politics and government--476-1492.
Classification: LCC D200 .M35 2016 (print) | LCC D200 (ebook) | DDC
940.1--dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015046152
Want or need Open Access? Brill Open offers you the choice to make your research freely accessible
online in exchange for a publication charge. Review your various options on brill.com/brill-open.
Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface.
isbn 978-90-04-24839-7 (hardback)
isbn 978-90-04-31136-7 (e-book)
Copyright 2016 by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi and
Hotei Publishing.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system,
or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise,
without prior written permission from the publisher.
Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill nv provided
that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive,
Suite 910, Danvers, ma 01923, usa. Fees are subject to change.
This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner.
ContentCsontents v
Contents
Abbreviations vii
List of Contributors viii
Introductory
Robert Bartlett: A Profile 1
John Hudson and William Ian Miller
The Making of Europe: A Brief Summary 5
John Hudson
The Carolingian Past in Post-Carolingian Europe 11
Simon MacLean
part 1
Geographical Perspectives
Introduction to Part 1 32
1 England and The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization, and
Cultural Change 33
John Hudson
2 The Europeanization of Scandinavia 53
Sverre Bagge
3 Where’s Iceland? 76
William Ian Miller
4 The Duke as Entrepeneur: The Piast Ruler and the Economy of
Medieval Poland 96
Piotr Górecki
vi Contents
5 Narratives of Expansion, Last Wills, Poor Expectations and the
Conquest of Seville (1248) 123
Ana Rodríguez
part 2
Thematic Perspectives
Introduction to Part 2 144
6 Military Technology and Political Resistance: Castles, Fleets and the
Contents
Contents v Changing Face of Comital Rebellion in England and Normandy,
Abbreviations vii
List of Contributors viii
IRnotbroedrtu Bcatortrlyett: A Profile 1 c. 1026–1087 145
The Making of Europe: A Brief Summary 5
John Hudson
The Carolingian Past in Post-Carolingian Europe Matthew Strickland
The Carolingian Past in Post-Carolingian Europe 11
Simon MacLean
Part 1
Geographical Perspectives
Introduction to Part 1 32
CEnhgalpatnedr 1and The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization, and Cultural Change 33 7 The Evils of the Court: Judicial Melodramas in Medieval French
John Hudson
Chapter 2
The Europeanization of Scandinavia 53 Literature 184
Sverre Bagge
Chapter 3
WWhilleiraem’s IIcaenl aMnidll?e r76 Stephen D. White
Chapter 4
The Duke as Entrepeneur: The Piast Ruler and the Economy of Medieval Poland 96
Piotr Górecki
Chapter 5
Narratives of Expansion, Last Wills, Poor Expectations and the Conquest of Seville (1248) 123
Ana Rodríguez 8 Historical Writing and the Experience of Europeanization: The View
Part 2
Thematic Perspectives
Chapter 6 Introduction to Part 2 144 from St Albans 205
Military Technology and Political Resistance: Castles, Fleets and the Changing Face of Comital Rebellion in England and Normandy, c. 1026–1087 145
Matthew Strickland
Chapter 7 Björn Weiler
The Evils of the Court: Judicial Melodramas in Medieval French Literature 184
Stephen D. White
Chapter 8
Historical Writing and the Experience of Europeanization: The View from St Albans 205
Björn Weiler
CThhea pMteark 9ing and Unmaking of Rural Europe 244 9 The Making and Unmaking of Rural Europe 244
Esther Pascua Echegaray
Chapter 10
Landed Property and Government Finance in the Early ʿAbbasid Caliphate 264 Esther Pascua Echegaray
Hugh Kennedy
Chapter 11
Constructing Christendom 277
John Tolan
Bibliography of Books and Scholarly Articles by Robert Bartlett 299
CInodmexp iolef dN bamy Neso ra 3B0a7rtlett 10 Landed Property and Government Finance in the Early ʿAbbasid
Index of Places 314
Caliphate 264
Hugh Kennedy
11 Constructing Christendom 277
John Tolan
Bibliography of Books and Scholarly Articles by Robert Bartlett 299
Compiled by Nora Bartlett
Index of Names 307
Index of Places 314
Abbreviations vii
Abbreviations
Bartlett, Making of Europe Robert Bartlett, The Making of Europe: Conquest,
Colonization and Cultural Change 950–1350
(London, 1993)
MGH Monumenta Germaniae Historica
ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
PL Patrologia Latina
s.a. sub anno (“under the year”)
SRG Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum
scholarum seperatim editi
SRM Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum
viii Notes to the Reader Notes To The Reader
List of Contributors
Sverre Bagge
is Professor emeritus of medieval history at the University of Bergen.
Piotr Górecki
is Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside.
John Hudson
is Professor of Legal History at the University of St Andrews, and William W.
Cook Global Law Professor at University of Michigan Law School.
Hugh Kennedy
is Professor of Arabic at SOAS, University of London.
Simon MacLean
is Professor of History at the University of St Andrews.
William Ian Miller
is Thomas G. Long Professor of Law University of Michigan.
Esther Pascua Echegaray
is Lecturer in Medieval History at the Madrid Open University.
Ana Rodríguez
is Scientific Researcher at the Centre for Human and Social Sciences – CSIC,
Madrid.
Matthew Strickland
is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow.
John Tolan
is Professor of History at the University of Nantes and member of the Academia
Europaea.
Bjorn Weiler
is Professor of History at the University of Aberystwyth.
Stephen D. White
is Candler Professor of Medieval History (emeritus) at Emory University.
