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Cultures of Power : Lordship, Status, and Process in Twelfth-Century Europe / Thomas N. Bisson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (400 p.) : 5 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812215557
  • 9780812200768
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.5/223/094 20
LOC classification:
  • HT653.E9 C85 1995
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. Nobles and Knights in Twelfth-Century France -- 2. Instruments of Power: The Profile and Profession of Ministeriales Within German Aristocratic Society, 1050-1225 -- 3. Castles, Barons, and Vavassors in the Vendomois and Neighboring Regions in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries -- 4. Women and Power -- 5. Proposing the Ordeal and Avoiding It: Strategy and Power in Western French Litigation, 1050-1110 -- 6. England, France, and the Problem of Sacrality in Twelfth -Century Ritual -- 7. Law and Power in Twelfth-Century Flanders -- 8. Papal Judges Delegate and the Making of the "New Law" in the Twelfth Century -- 9. Sacred Sanctions for Lordship -- 10. León: The Iconography of the Capital -- 11. Jongleur as Propagandist: The Ecclesiastical Politics of Marcabru's Poetry -- 12. Courtliness and Social Change -- 13. Principes gentium dominantur eorum: Princely Power Between Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Twelfth-Century Exegesis -- Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: The authors of Cultures of Power proffer diverse perspectives on the prehistory of government in Northern France, Spain, Germany, the Low Countries, and England. Political, social, ecclesiastical, and cultural history are brought to bear on topics such as aristocracies, women, rituals, commemoration, and manifestations of power through literary, legal, and scriptural means.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. Nobles and Knights in Twelfth-Century France -- 2. Instruments of Power: The Profile and Profession of Ministeriales Within German Aristocratic Society, 1050-1225 -- 3. Castles, Barons, and Vavassors in the Vendomois and Neighboring Regions in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries -- 4. Women and Power -- 5. Proposing the Ordeal and Avoiding It: Strategy and Power in Western French Litigation, 1050-1110 -- 6. England, France, and the Problem of Sacrality in Twelfth -Century Ritual -- 7. Law and Power in Twelfth-Century Flanders -- 8. Papal Judges Delegate and the Making of the "New Law" in the Twelfth Century -- 9. Sacred Sanctions for Lordship -- 10. León: The Iconography of the Capital -- 11. Jongleur as Propagandist: The Ecclesiastical Politics of Marcabru's Poetry -- 12. Courtliness and Social Change -- 13. Principes gentium dominantur eorum: Princely Power Between Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Twelfth-Century Exegesis -- Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter

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The authors of Cultures of Power proffer diverse perspectives on the prehistory of government in Northern France, Spain, Germany, the Low Countries, and England. Political, social, ecclesiastical, and cultural history are brought to bear on topics such as aristocracies, women, rituals, commemoration, and manifestations of power through literary, legal, and scriptural means.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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