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9780812215557

Cultures of Power

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  • ISBN13:

    9780812215557

  • ISBN10:

    0812215559

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1995-06-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

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The authors ofCultures of Powerproffer 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.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
List of Abbreviations
ix
Introduction 1(10)
Thomas N. Bisson
Part I. Elites Old and New
Nobles and Knights in Twelfth-Century France
11(25)
Theodore Evergates
Instruments of Power: The Profile and Profession of ministeriales Within German Aristocratic Society (1050--1225)
36(20)
Benjamin Arnold
Castles, Barons, and Vavassors in the Vendomois and Neighboring Regions in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
56(13)
Dominique Barthelemy
Women and Power
69(20)
Georges Duby
Part II. Strategy, Means, Process
Proposing the Ordeal and Avoiding It: Strategy and Power in Western French Litigation, 1050--1110
89(35)
Stephen D. White
England, France, and the Problem of Sacrality in Twelfth-Century Ritual
124(25)
Geoffrey Koziol
Law and Power in Twelfth-Century Flanders
149(23)
R. C. Van Caenegem
Papal Judges Delegate and the Making of the ``New Law'' in the Twelfth Century
172(31)
Charles Duggan
Part III. Cultures of Power
Sacred Sanctions for Lordship
203(28)
John Van Engen
Leon: The Iconography of a Capital
231(28)
John W. Williams
Jongleur as Propagandist: The Ecclesiastical Politics of Marcabru's Poetry
259(28)
Laura Kendrick
Courtliness and Social Change
287(23)
C. Stephen Jaeger
Principes gentium dominantur eorum: Princely Power Between Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Twelfth-Century Exegesis
310(19)
Philippe Buc
Conclusion 329(4)
Thomas N. Bisson
List of Contributors 333(4)
Index 337

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