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Subject(s)

• Middle Ages—Sources [Browse]
• Civilization, Medieval [Browse]
• Social history—Medieval, 500-1500 [Browse]
• Europe, Western—Historiography [Browse]

Series

Oxford scholarship online. [More in this series]

Summary note

'Beatrice's Last Smile' is a sweeping narrative history of the medieval west from the beginning of the third century to the beginning of the sixteenth. This book focuses on slow formation of Latin Christendom over a millennium in the aftermath of the disintegration of the western Roman Empire.

Notes

Also issued in print: 2023.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Cover
• Beatrice's Last Smile
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• List of Maps
• I What God?
• II Swan Songs
• III The Flutter of Blackbirds
• IV Mad Poets
• V An Everlasting Star
• VI The Harrying of the Heathen
• VII Hermits in Mail
• VIII Uncle, What Troubles You?
• IX Love Moves the Sun and All the Other Stars
• X Only Death Wakes Us from Dreaming
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Select Bibliography
• Index.

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ISBN

• 0-19-769029-7
• 0-19-939282-X
• 0-19-939281-1

OCLC

1351893473

Doi

10.1093/oso/9780199766482.001.0001

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