History Catalogue 2006.qxp - Blackwell Publishing

Europe, The heBi rthofisigothicSpain409-71The 625-865, Bede, imesofThe Birth of EuropeJACQUES,JACQUESLEGOFLE GOFFÉcole Pratique des Hautes-Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris“A book that never fails to be informative, readable and provocative. Le Goff... has beenthe bravest and best of champions for medieval history. This book, written by its authorat the age of 80, is in every sense an inspiration.”BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE“A superb and necessary book. This provocative assessment from a lifetime ofscholarship might help us to place ourselves, not just territorially, but in that otherprecious element of history: time.”THE GUARDIAN“Jacques Le Goff has capped off a lifetime of contemplating the Middle Ages withthis work of great insight and learning. A fascinating rumination on the structure of medieval culture and society.”NORMAN F. CANTOR, LATE OF NEW YORK UNIVERSITY“This book distils the life’s work of one of the great historians of our time… Anyone who asks why Europe needs itshistory, or why History needs Europe, should read it.”R. I. MOORE, PROFESSOR EMERITUS, UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLESERIES: MAKING OF EUROPE / SERIES EDITOR: JACQUES LE GOFF288 PAGES / 0-631-22888-8 HB / JANUARY 2005NEW IN PAPERBACK IN 2006Visigothic Spain 409-711ROGER,COLINSROGER COLLINSUniversity of EdinburghBetween the end of Roman rule in the early fifth century and the Arab conquest in the eighth,Spain’s destiny lay with the Visigoths, a confederacy of different ethnic groups formed in theBalkans in the later fourth century. Taking account of important new documentary evidence and ofthe latest archaeological findings, the author presents a wealth of original theories, challengingmany traditional assumptions about Visigothic Spain – about how the Visigothic kingdom wasgoverned, law in the kingdom, the nature and methods of the Arab conquest, and the rise of Spainas an intellectual force in the West.The book falls into two parts: the first providing a chronological overview of political andmilitary events; the second reviewing the evidence for social life and organization in VisigothicSpain. A historiographical introduction summarizes the current state of research on the historyand archaeology of the period.NEW IN 2006The Times ofBede, 625-865Studies in Early English ChristianSociety and its HistorianPATRICKWORMALD PATRICK ,WORMALDLate of University of OxfordWritten over a 30-year period bythe late Patrick Wormald, one ofthe leading authorities on the EarlyMiddle Ages, this book is acollection of studies on Bede andearly English Christian society.Its central concern is theestablishment of a Christiancommunity within a warriorsociety, and the way this wascharted, not always sympathetically,by Bede and other writers of histime. A subsidiary theme is theemergence of a self-consciouslyEnglish Church, which was in turnthe foundation of an English state.An appendix considers Bede’streatment of St. Hilda, the firstgreat English female saint.MEDIEVAL HISTORYSERIES: A HISTORY OF SPAIN / SERIES EDITOR: JOHN LYNCH272 PAGES / 0-631-18185-7 HB 2004 / 1-4051-4966-3 PB MARCH 2006JOURNALSEurope eval yMedilEar: IndexerEarly Medieval EuropeEdited by CATHERINE CUBITT, JULIA CRICK, PAUL FOURACRE, HELENA HAMEROW,SARAH HAMILTON, MATTHEW INNES, ANTONIO SENNIS & DANUTA SHANZERwww.blackwellpublishing.com/EMEDThe book will be welcomed for itssystematic integration of thereligious, intellectual, political andsocial history of the English in theirfirst Christian centuries.288 PAGES0-631-16655-6 HB / FEBRUARY 20069