Covering a broad range of topics - encompassing legal, social, cultural, theological and political history - the volume asks fundamental questions about how we regard history, and what historians can learn from colleagues working in other fields that may not at first glance appear to offer any obvious links.

Covering a broad range of topics - encompassing legal, social, cultural, theological and political history - the volume asks fundamental questions about how we regard history, and what historians can learn from colleagues working in other fields that may not at first glance appear to offer any obvious links. By focusing on the concept of the medieval-modern divide - in particular the relation between the Middle Ages and the Reformation - each essay examines how a medievalist deals with a specific topic or issue that is also attracting the attention of Reformation scholars.

'Bridging the Medieval-Modern Divide lives up to its title. The essays contained within are varied and often quite differing in their approach to the historiography of the fuzzy distinction between the Middle Ages and the early modern period. ... James Muldoon has inspired a most constructive work, one that will hopefully continue to flower and gradually fill the gap between the medieval and the early modern.' Sixteenth Century Journal