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1 online resource (332 pages) |
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Later Medieval Europe ; v. 11 |
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Later medieval Europe ; v. 11.
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| Contents |
Royal power and minorities. -- Christian love, Jewish "privacy," and medieval kingship / David Nirenberg -- The Castilian monarchy and the Jews (eleventh to thirteenth centuries) / Maya Soifer Irish -- Royal power and ritual murder: notes on the expulsion of the Jews from the royal domain of France, 1182 / .E.M. Rose -- The intimacy of exception: the diagnosis of Samuel Abenmenasse / Hussein Fancy -- The politics of peacemaking. -- Can the church be desperate, warriors be pacifist, and commoners ridiculously optimistic? On the historian's imagination and the peace of God / Richard Landes -- Peacemaking, performance, and power in thirteenth-century San Gimignano / Katherine L. Jansen -- Captivity and diplomacy in the late medieval crown of Aragon / Jarbel Rodriguez -- Religious institutions and society. -- The economic power of a hospital in thirteenth-century Provins / Adam J. Davis -- "In some way even more than before": approaches to understanding St. Louis of Anjou, Franciscan bishop of Toulouse / Holly J. Grieco -- "In order to keep the memory": miracle cults as sources of authority in the crown of Aragon / Michelle Garceau -- Patrolling normative borders after the black death: the Bishop of Lucca's criminal court / G. Geltner -- Crusading, memory, and identity. -- Warrior or saint? Joinville, Louis IX's character, and the challenge of the crusade / Jonathan Elukin -- Confessor king, martyr saint: praying to Saint Maurice at Senlis / Anne E. Lester -- Men of France? boundary crossing in Constantinople in the 1240s / Erica Gilles -- Victory by desire: crusade and martyrdom in the fourteenth century / Christopher MacEvitt -- Rethinking issues of medieval law and history. -- Custom's two bodies / Emily Kadens -- A cautionary note / Mark Gregory Pegg |
| Summary |
Center and Periphery honors Willliam Chester Jordan on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The essays by his former doctoral students examine the complexity of negotiating power at the center and margins of society in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Power (Social sciences) -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Civilization, Medieval.
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Middle Ages.
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HISTORY -- Medieval.
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Civilization, Medieval
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Middle Ages
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Power (Social sciences)
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Social conditions
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Europe -- History -- 476-1492. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045690
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Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045754
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| Subject |
Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jansen, Katherine Ludwig, 1957-
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Geltner, G. (Guy), 1974-
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Lester, Anne Elisabeth, 1974-
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Jordan, William Chester, 1948-
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| ISBN |
9789004249035 |
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9004249036 |
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9789004243590 |
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9004243593 |
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