Middle Ages in Texts and Texture

Jason Glenn is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Politics and History in the Tenth Century: The Work and World of Richer of Reims (2004) and has published several articles on medieval political, religious, and intellectual culture.

Think of being the instructor for the year-long undergraduate survey and of inviting a series of friends to give guest lectures, each lecture centering around an assigned source and now being delivered with a degree of polish that we are more likely to devote to a one-off and flattering guest appearance than to the regular Tuesday-Thursday stand up performance. - The Medieval Review This book presents a series of twenty-six insightful, short essays, each about a different medieval author or text, written to appeal to undergraduate students and their instructors. The essays are concise and digestible and offer a variety of perspectives on approaching medieval authors and texts. - Comitatus

• Foreword Acknowledgements A Note on References Introduction Jason Glenn 1. Hearing Voices in Late Antiquity: An Aural Approach to Augustine's ConfessionsWilliam North 2. Confessor Saints and the Origins of Monasticism: The Lives of Saints Antony and Martin John M. McCulloh 3. The Barbarian Ethos: The Germania, Beowulf, and the Life of Saint BonifaceJudith Beall 4. The Written World of Gregory of ToursSam Collins 5. Two Lives of Saint RadegundJason Glenn 6. The Avenging Abbot: Gregory the Great and His Life of Saint Benedict Carole Straw 7. Crime and Punishment: Anglo-Saxon Law Codes Kathleen Casey 8. Conversion, Miracles, and the Creation of a People in Bede's Ecclesiastical History Jay Rubenstein 9. Between Two Empires: Einhard and His Charles the GreatJason Glenn 10. Divine Lessons in an Imperfect World: Bernard of Angers and The Book of Sainte Foy's MiraclesKathleen Stewart Fung 11. William of Poitiers Talks about WarJay Rubenstein 12. Epic Values: The Song of Roland Susan P. Millinger 13. Galbert of Bruges: The Notary as PoetLawrence R. Jannuzzi 14. Odo of Deuil's The Journey of Louis VII to the East: Between The Song of Roland and Joinville's Life of Saint LouisRudi Paul Lindner 15. Encountering the CidHelen Nader 16. Wondrous Crusade Encounters: Usamah ibn Munqidh's Book of Learning by ExampleAdnan Husain 17. Between History and Literature: Chretien de Troyes's Lancelot and Marie de France's LaisAmy G. Remensnyder 18. Walter Daniel's Life of Aelred of Rievaulx: The Heroism of Intelligence and the Miracle of Love Katherine Christensen 19. Richard of Devizes: The Monk Who Forgot to be MedievalNancy Partner 20. Mission to Crusade: Friar William of Rubruck's Journey to the MongolsAdnan Husain 21. Saint Francis and Salimbene de Adam: The Franciscan Experience of FamilyVictoria M. Morse 22. Cities and Kingship in the Medieval West: Joinville's Louis IX and ParisJohn Tuthill 23. The Virgin and the King: Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa MariaAmy G. Remensnyder 24. Moving the Masses: Cola di Rienzo, the Anonimo Romano, and the Roman CrowdJennifer A. Heindl 25. Christine de Pizan on Gossip, Misogyny, and PossibilityDallas G. Denery II 26. Why Margery Kempe is Annoying and Why We Should CareClementine Oliver Contributors Index