Table of Contents

1: 'The Middle Ages'
2: People and their life styles
3: Big ideas
4: Environments and resources
5: The Middle Ages of others
6: The 'Middle Ages' in our daily lives
Further reading
Index

About the Author

Miri Rubin is Professor of Medieval History at Queen Mary University of London and Head of the School of History. She was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Cambridge. She has taught at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and has held visiting positions in Paris, Princeton, and New York. Her research has explored areas of the religious cultures of medieval Europe, and has been influenced by an interdisciplinary approach which
had benefited from the use of textual, visual and musical sources. She enjoys writing for diverse audiences and discussing history wherever engaged interest arises.