KEY FIGURES IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA IN THANE

This volume gathers together biographical entries from the titles in the Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages series with the aim of presenting in one place biographies of the most important people in medieval Europe between AD 500 and 1500. Entries will fall under the following categories: artists; authors; cartographers, cosmographers and geographers; diplomats and envoys; dynasties; explorers; families; historians and chroniclers; kings; monks; musicians; nuns; persons; popes; queens; religious leaders; rulers and scientists. The lives of over 500 individuals are discussed, studying their impact on politics, religion and the arts across medieval Europe. The volume also includes personalities from the Jewish and Islamic worlds.