Books in the The Expansion of Latin Europe, 1000-1500 series

Discussion of medieval European expansion tends to focus on expansion eastward and the crusades. This volume looks first at the legacy of the Viking expansion which had briefly created a network stretching across the sea from Britain and Ireland to North America, and had demonstrated that the Atlantic could be crossed and land reached.

Demonstrates that medieval men and women were curious about the world around them; and they wanted to hear about distant lands and the various people who inhabited them. This title illustrates how travellers' reports in turn shaped the European response to the world beyond Europe.

Intends to clarify some of the context for the expansion of Western Europe by focusing on what had been the greatest power in early medieval Europe, the Byzantine empire, and on the strengths and expansion of the Orthodox world.

From the twelfth century, a growing sense of cultural confidence in the Latin West was accompanied by the increasing importance of the genre of empirical ethnographies. This anthology of classic articles in the history of medieval ethnographies illustrates this theme.

Around the year 1000 Rodulfus Glaber described France as being in the throes of a building boom. He may have been the first writer to perceive the early medieval period as a Dark Age that was ending to be replaced by a better world. This book discusses the ways in which this transformation took place.

Intends to sketch the outlines of medieval expansion, illustrating some of the major topics that historians have examined in the course of demonstrating the links between medieval and modern experiences.