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

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (365 pages) 
 - The Middle Ages Series .
 - The Middle Ages Series .
<br/><br/>Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Elites Old and New -- 1 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 Vendômois and Neighboring Regions in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries -- 4 Women and Power -- Part II: Strategy, Means, Process -- 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 -- Part III: Cultures of Power -- 9 Sacred Sanctions for Lordship -- 10 León: The Iconography of a 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 -- List of Contributors -- Index. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780812200768 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nobility-Europe-History-Congresses.<br/>Aristocracy (Social class)-Europe-History-Congresses.<br/>Elite (Social sciences)-Europe-History-Congresses.<br/>Social history-Medieval, 500-1500-Congresses.<br/>Upper class-Europe-History-Congresses.<br/>Power (Social sciences)-Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HT653.E9 -- .C85 1995eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.5/223/094