- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Anglo-Saxon England
- English History 1066–1272
- English Political History of the Late Middle Ages, 1272–c. 1520
- European History
- Ecclesiastical History
- Economic History
- Legal History
- Byzantine Scholarship: Twelfth-Century Constantinople, Twentieth-Century Britain
- Celtic Studies
- Old Norse-Icelandic Studies
- Slavonic Studies
- Chinese and Japanese Studies
- Language
- Latin
- Old English
- Middle English Literature
- German Studies
- Romance Studies 1: Francophone Studies
- Romance Studies 2: Hispanic Literatures
- Romance Studies 3: Dante
- Artefacts, Sites and Landscapes: Archaeology and Medieval Studies
- Numismatics
- History of Science and Medicine
- Cartography
- Medieval Thought
- Musicology
- The Study of Medieval Art I: 1900–50
- The Study of Medieval Art 2: 1950–2000
- Metrics
- The History of the Book
- Epilogue
- Index of Scholars
- Subject Index
European History
European History
- Chapter:
- (p.70) (p.71) European History
- Source:
- A Century of British Medieval Studies
- Author(s):
Janet L. Nelson
- Publisher:
- British Academy
This chapter examines British works on the study of medieval European history. It explores the evolution of the field of historical scholarship in Great Britain during the twentieth century and investigates the reasons and consequences for changes that can be situated in a wider context. It discusses medieval European history in Britain before and after World War 2 and stresses the need to get British work on medieval Europe into perspective, given that continental history is always a minority subject within medieval history.
Keywords: European history, medieval history, Great Britain, historical scholarship, World War 2, continental history
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- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Anglo-Saxon England
- English History 1066–1272
- English Political History of the Late Middle Ages, 1272–c. 1520
- European History
- Ecclesiastical History
- Economic History
- Legal History
- Byzantine Scholarship: Twelfth-Century Constantinople, Twentieth-Century Britain
- Celtic Studies
- Old Norse-Icelandic Studies
- Slavonic Studies
- Chinese and Japanese Studies
- Language
- Latin
- Old English
- Middle English Literature
- German Studies
- Romance Studies 1: Francophone Studies
- Romance Studies 2: Hispanic Literatures
- Romance Studies 3: Dante
- Artefacts, Sites and Landscapes: Archaeology and Medieval Studies
- Numismatics
- History of Science and Medicine
- Cartography
- Medieval Thought
- Musicology
- The Study of Medieval Art I: 1900–50
- The Study of Medieval Art 2: 1950–2000
- Metrics
- The History of the Book
- Epilogue
- Index of Scholars
- Subject Index