Oxford Studies in Medieval European History is a flagship series, representing the excitement and variety of this formative period in Europe's past. It is open to a wide range of historical approaches and will publish books meeting the highest standards of scholarship. Volumes will be of interest and importance to an international readership, whether through their methodological innovation, interpretative approach, or empirical discovery. The series will be alive to the best writing of a transnational and comparative kind, though it will also publish work conceived within the 'national' frameworks that remain a vibrant form of historical practice. A central emphasis is on breadth, which may be found in various ways: looking at a topic in a truly European context, alert to comparative and international perspectives; drawing inspiration from an original and possibly interdisciplinary theoretical framework; or by developing an important conceptual approach from a more tightly focused empirical study.
Overall, the series aims to influence our view of Europe as a whole, and to compare or break down the distinctions between historical experience in the west, east, north, and south of the continent. It will explore the impact of religion, economics, politics, and institutions on culture and ideology (and vice-versa), and will examine how identities and experiences were formed and re-formed within medieval Europe. 'Europe' will be defined in different ways by different contributors: the idea of 'Europe' was forming in the period itself, and the lives and ideas of medieval Europeans were shaped by interactions with many other parts of the world.
Series Editors: Caroline Goodson, Amy Remensnyder, and John Watts