| Description |
1 online resource (x, 400 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Middle Ages series |
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Middle Ages series
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| Contents |
Introduction / Thomas N. Bisson -- Nobles and knights in twelfth-century France / Theodore Evergates -- Instruments of power : the profile and profession of ministeriales within German aristocratic society (1050-1225) / Benjamin Arnold -- Castles, barons, and vavassors in the Vendm̂ois and neighboring regions in the eleventh and twelfth centuries / Dominique Barthélemy -- Women and power / Georges Duby -- Proposing the ordeal and avoiding it : strategy and power in western French litigation, 1050-1110 / Stephen D. White -- England, France, and the problem of sacrality in twelfth-century ritual / Geoffrey Koziol -- Law and power in twelfth-century Flanders / R.C. Van Caenegem -- Papal judges delegate and the making of the "new law" in the twelfth century / Charles Duggan -- Sacred sanctions for lordship / John Van Engen -- León : the iconography of a capital / John W. Williams -- Jongleur as propagandist : the ecclesiastical politics of Marcabru's poetry / Laura Kendrik -- Courtliness and social change / C. Stephen Jaeger -- Principes genium dominantur eorum : princely power between legitimacy and illegitimacy in twelfth-century exegesis / Philippe Buc -- Conclusion / Thomas N. Bisson |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
History |
| Notes |
Papers presented at an interdisciplinary conference, held May 1-4, 1991, and sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies at Harvard University |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nobility -- Europe -- History -- Congresses
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Aristocracy (Social class) -- Europe -- History -- Congresses
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Elite (Social sciences) -- Europe -- History -- Congresses
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Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500 -- Congresses
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Upper class -- Europe -- History -- Congresses
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Power (Social sciences) -- Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Aristocracy (Social class)
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Elite (Social sciences)
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Nobility
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Power (Social sciences)
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Social history -- Medieval
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Upper class
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bisson, Thomas N.
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Harvard University. Committee on Medieval Studies.
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| ISBN |
0585126496 |
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9780585126494 |
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9780812215557 |
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0812215559 |
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9780812200768 |
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0812200764 |
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0812232909 |
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9780812232905 |
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