Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen

This is another book that's been on my shelves years and years, and I was finally tempted to pick it up after listening to some History Extra podcasts on crusades. It's a collection of articles by researchers mainly from Finland and Denmark who organised a crusading history workshop in Rome—some articles are based on presentation, others were written for this book specifically. I definitely feel I learned something new here.

I bought this book because Tuomas Lehtonen taught a couple of history of ideas modules that I did at university many years ago, and I thought at the time it would be interesting to read more of this work. This book is his doctoral dissertation and it discusses some of the poems of Carmina Burana manuscript in their historical context.

Essays on European culture in the middle ages.