Chapter 9 Review: Suggested References

A few books, like Brubaker and Smith’s, try to bridge the divides between the Byzantine, Islamic, and western European worlds. Nevertheless, for the most part these regions are treated separately. For Byzantium, Whittow is essential. For insight into the Islamic world, see especially Cooperson. For the Carolingian world, De Jong provides a new approach.

Becher, Matthias. Charlemagne. 2003.

Berend, Nora. At the Gate of Christendom: Jews, Muslims, and “Pagans” in Medieval Hungary, c. 1000–c. 1300. 2001.

Brubaker, Leslie, and Julia M. H. Smith. Gender in the Early Medieval World: East and West, 300–900. 2004.

*Chronicle of Zuqnin, Parts III and IV, A.D. 488–775. Trans. Amir Harrak. 1999.

Cooperson, Michael. Al Ma’mun. 2005.

De Jong, Mayke. The Penitential State: Authority and Atonement in the Age of Louis the Pious, 814–840. 2009.

*Dutton, Paul Edward, ed. Carolingian Civilization: A Reader. 2004.

*———, ed. and trans. Charlemagne’s Courtier: The Complete Einhard. 1998.

Franklin, Simon, and Jonathan Shepard. The Emergence of Rus, 750–1200. 1996.

Garver, Valerie L. Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World. 2009.

Jones, Anna Trumbore. Noble Lord, Good Shepherd: Episcopal Power and Piety in Aquitaine, 877–1050. 2009.

Kennedy, Hugh. The Armies of the Caliphs: Military and Society in the Early Islamic State. 2001.

*Psellus, Michael. Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia. Trans. E. R. A. Sewter. 1966.

Whittow, Mark. The Making of Byzantium, 600–1025. 1996.