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Partner, Nancy, ed. Studying Medieval Women (1993)
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Syrien und Palstina aus archologischer Sicht, Loseby Decline and change in the
cities of late antique Gaul, and Kulikowskis The Late Roman City in Spain )
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Davis, Stephen. The cult of Saint Thecla: A Tradition of Womens Piety in Late
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Rapp, C. Holy bishops in late antiquity: the nature of Christian leadership in an
age of transition (2005)
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Rustomiji, Nerina. The Garden and the fire: Heaven and hell in Islamic culture
(2008)
Sizgorich, T. Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity: Militant Devotion in
Christianity and Islam (2008) (repeat)
Thomas F.X. Noble & J ulia M.H. Smith, eds., Early Medieval Christianity, c.
600-c. 1100, Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 3 (New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2008) (selected chapters)

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Debates;
Issues of continuity and change between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages which
area European, Byzantium, Islam continued the classical tradition the most?

Ethnicity was there a barbarian identity? If so, how was it constructed / displayed?

Historians why they construct this period the way they do

.Changeandcontinuityintheearlymedievalpolities(600900) 2

Debates:
natureofthestateandpoliticalidentityintheearlyMiddleAgesandimplications
forlongtermhistory

Natureofearlymedievalkingship

Conversionhowdiditcomeabout,whatdiditmean?

laceofAngloSaxonEnglandperipheraltoCarolingianEuropeoraseparate P
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edievalidentity? m

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Technologicaldeclineorgrowth?
Impactofarchaeologyinrevisinginterpretations
Whenandwhydidtheeconomicgrowththatwouldlaterleadtotheriseof
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Baron, Hans. The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance: Civic Humanism and
n Age of Classicism and Tyranny. 2 vol . P
ed.Princeton:PrincetonUniv.Press,1
Republican Liberty in a s Princeton: rinceton
Univ.Press,1955.Rev. 966.
risteller, Paul Oskar. Renaissance Thought and Its Sources. New York: Columbia K
Univ.Press,1979.

RecentHistoriography
Humanists, Historians, and Celenza, Christopher S. The Lost Italian Renaissance:
LatinsLegacy.
BaltimoreandLondon:JohnsHopkinsUniv.Press,2004.
Grendler, Paul F. Schooling in Renaissance Italy: Literacy and Learning, 13001600.
BaltimoreandLondon:JohnsHopkinsUniv.Press,1989.
e Baron Thesis after Forty Years and Some Recent Stud Hankins, James. Th ies of
LeonardoBruni.JournaloftheHistoryofIdeas56(1995):30938.
ed.RenaissanceCivicHumanism:ReappraisalsandRefle
York:CambridgeUniv.Press,2000.
Hankins,James, ctions.Ideas
inContext.CambridgeandNew
Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism. Cam
9 .
Kraye, Jill., ed. The bridge:
CambridgeUniv.Press,19 6
Rabil,Albert,Jr.,ed.RenaissanceHumanism:Foundations,Forms,andLegacy.Vol.1,
taly. Vol. 2, Humanism beyond Italy. Vol. 3, Humanism and the Humanism in I
Disciplines.Philadelphia,Pa.:Univ.ofPennsylvaniaPress,1988.
Witt,RonaldG.IntheFootstepsoftheAncients:TheOriginsofHumanismfromLovato
oBruni.StudiesinmedievalandReformationthought,74.LeidenandBoston:Brill,
000.
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OMalley, John W. Praise and Blame in Renaissance Rome: Rhetoric, Doctrine and
eformintheSacredOratorsofthePapalCourt,c.14501521.DukeMonographysin
ceStudies,3.Durham,N.C.:DukeUniv.Press,1979.
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