文档介绍：Life and Thought in the Early Middle Ages
THE CHAPTERS of this volume originated as
public lectures given by the authors in the an-
nual Spring Lecture Series, 1963, sponsored by
the General Extension Division of the
University of Minnesota
LIFE AND THOUGHT
in the
EARLY MIDDLE AGES
) EDITED BY ROBERT S. HOYT (
The University of Minnesota Press
MINNEAPOOS
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION by Robert S. Hoyt, UNIVERSITY OF
MINNESOTA 3
THE BARBARIAN KINGS AS LAWGIVERS AND
JUDGES by Katherine Fischer Drew, RICE UNIVERSITY 7
OF TOWNS AND TRADE by Robert S. Lopez, YALE
UNIVERSITY 30
THE TWO LEVELS OF FEUDALISM by Joseph R.
Strayer, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 51
THE IMAGE OF CHRIST IN THE EARLY
MIDDLE AGES by Adolf Katzenellenbogen, JOHNS HOPKINS
UNIVERSITY. Illustrations between pages 70 and 71 66
THE LIFE OF THE SILENT MAJORITY by Lynn
White, Jr., UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES 85
££OTF£7LFANDBEDEby John C. McGalliard, UNIVERSITY
OF IOWA 101
VIKING—TUNNIT—ESKIMO by T. J. Oleson, UNIVERSITY
OP MANITOBA 122
THE CHURCH, REFORM, AND RENAISSANCE IN
THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES by Karl F. Morrison,
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 143
INDEX 161
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ROBERT S. HOYT
INTRODUCTION
THE period covered by the essays in this volume extends from the
establishment of the Germanic "essor states" in the western
provinces of the Roman Empire to the appearance of some of the
economic and feudal institutions that were to provide a basis for
the civilization of the high Middle Ages. It is the period -
monly called "the Dark Ages." In modern medieval scholarship
the label is