Table of Contents

Some Thoughts on the Making of the Middle Ages - Graham A Loud and Martial Staub
Why Re-Inventing Medieval History is a Good Idea - Janet L Nelson
Literary Composition and the Early Medieval Historian in the Nineteenth Century - Ian Nicholas Wood
European Ethnicities and European as an Ethnicity: Does Europe Have Too Much History? - Patrick Geary
A Crisis of the Middle Ages? Deconstructing and Constructing European Identities in a Globalised World - Michael Borgolte
Barbarossa's Heirs: Nation and Medieval History in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany - Bastian Schlütter
Once upon a time in Germany: Medievalism, Academic Romanticism, Nationalism - Joep Leerssen
Between Ideology and Technology: Depicting Charlemagne in Modern Times - Bernhard Jussen
Reflections on the Frontier in Early Medieval Iberia - Richard Hitchcock
Germany's Growth to the East: from the Polabian Marches to Germania Slavica - Christian Lübke
Distance and Difference: Medieval Inquisition as American History - Christine Ames
Mind the Gap: Modern and Medieval 'Religious' Vocabularies - Peter Biller

About the Author

G.A. LOUD Is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of Leeds. He is an acknowledged authority on the Normans in the south, and more generally on southern Italy during the Central Middle Ages. G.A. LOUD Is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of Leeds. He is an acknowledged authority on the Normans in the south, and more generally on southern Italy during the Central Middle Ages. PETE BILLER is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of York.

Reviews

Editors Graham A. Loud and Martial Staub have excelled themselves in producing a collection of articles that is in many ways more than the sum of its parts.. [It] acts as a primer for further discussions about the role, place, and limitations of medieval history, and should be required reading for undergraduates.
*PARERGON*

[T]his is a particularly timely volume, both for medievalists and for historians more generally.
*AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW*

Exemplary scholarship from some of the leading names in the field is combined with new perspectives on old problems and a refreshing dose of self-awareness and political consciousness.
*MEDIEVAL REVIEW*

The Making of Medieval History strikes a valiant balance between historiographical overview for the field while still providing starting points of historical narrative and evaluation. The contribution to the field should not be understated.
*MEDIEVALLY SPEAKING*