The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe: 950-1350Robert F. Berkhofer, Alan Cooper, Adam J. Kosto Taking their inspiration from the work of Thomas N. Bisson, to whom the book is dedicated, the contributors to this volume explore the experience of power in medieval Europe: the experience of those who held power, those who helped them wield it, and those who felt its effects. The seventeen essays in the collection, which range geographically from England in the north to Castile in the south, and chronologically from the tenth century to the fourteenth, address a series of specific topics in institutional, social, religious, cultural, and intellectual history. Taken together, they present three distinct ways of discussing power in a medieval historical context: uses of power, relations of power, and discourses of power. The collection thus examines not only the operational and social aspects of power, but also power as a contested category within the medieval world. The Experience of Power suggests new and fruitful ways of understanding and studying power in the Middle Ages. |
Contents
Saintly Power and Ducal Authority | 11 |
AssessingAssigning Authority | 25 |
Abbatial Authority over Lay Agents | 43 |
The Abuse of Authority by Jewish | 59 |
Lordship and Coinage in Empúries ca 1080ca 1140 | 73 |
Notaries and their Signs in Medieval | 93 |
A Charter of Oliba from before His Entry into Religious Life | 121 |
Transformations in the Powers of Wives and Widows near Montpellier | 153 |
Hostages and the Habit of Representation in ThirteenthCentury | 183 |
Power and Authority in the Literature of Fleury | 197 |
Power Personality and Perversity? Robert of Arbrissel ca 1045 | 213 |
Creating an Ideal of Noble Power in Monastic | 227 |
The Lordship of Jongleurs | 237 |
Tormented Voices in | 271 |
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Protestations of Ignorance in Domesday Book | 169 |
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