Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia

Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia is part of the series, The Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages (formerly the Garland Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages). Another volume in the series, Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia, was reviewed recently reviewed in these columns by the present reviewer (RR 2003/420).

Medieval Italy provides an introduction to the many facets of Italian civilization from the late Roman Empire to the end of the fourteenth century (p. vii). The work contains almost 1,000 entries (p. ix), ranging in length from 100 to over 10,000 words (p. vii). As in the case of Medieval...