Central Europe in The High Middle Ages

Europe in the High Middle Ages is one of the most original and personal volumes in the set. Rather than pursue a chronological narrative of events, Professor Mundy has instead provided a vivid portrait of social, economic, political and intellectual life of Latin Christendom in the period.

The women in the family which ruled thirteenth-century Castile used maternity, familial and political strategy, and religious and cultural patronage to secure their personal power as well as to promote their lineage.