1. Introduction / Peter Linehan and Janet L. Nelson -- 2. Courts in East and West / Jonathan Shepard -- 3. At the Spanish frontier / Peter Linehan -- 4. Muslims in Christian Iberia, 1000-1526 : varieties of Mudejar experience / David Nirenberg -- 5. How many medieval Europes? : the "pagans" of Hungary and regional diversity in Christendom / Nora Berend -- 6. Christians, barbarians and monsters : the European discovery of the world beyond Islam / Peter Jackson -- 7. The Establishment of medieval Hermeticism / Charles Burnett -- 8. What the Crusades meant to Europe / Christopher Tyerman -- 9. The Crusades and the persecution of the Jews / J.A. Watt -- 10. Strange eventful histories : the Middle Ages in the cinema / Stuart Airlie -- 11. Political rituals and political imagination in the medieval West from the fourth century to the eleventh / Philippe Buc -- 12. Modern mythologies of medieval chivalry / Dominique Barth⥬emy -- 13. The unique favour of penance : the church and the people, c.800-c.1100 / Sarah Hamilton -- 14. Gender negotiations in France during the Middle Ages : the literary evidence / Linda Paterson -- 15. Symbolism and medieval religious thought / David d'Avray -- 16. Sexuality in the Middle Ages / Ruth Mazo Karras -- 17. Sin, crime and the pleasures of the flesh : the medieval Church judges sexual offences / James Brundage -- 18. Through a glass darkly : seeing medieval heresy / Peter Biller -- 19. The corpse in the Middle Ages : the problem of the division of