TY - BOOK AU - Bisson,Thomas N. TI - Cultures of Power: Lordship, Status, and Process in Twelfth-Century Europe T2 - The Middle Ages Series SN - 9780812200768 AV - HT653.E9 -- .C85 1995eb U1 - 305.5/223/094 PY - 1995/// CY - Philadelphia PB - University of Pennsylvania Press KW - Nobility-Europe-History-Congresses KW - Aristocracy (Social class)-Europe-History-Congresses KW - Elite (Social sciences)-Europe-History-Congresses KW - Social history-Medieval, 500-1500-Congresses KW - Upper class-Europe-History-Congresses KW - Power (Social sciences)-Congresses KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - No detailed description available for "Cultures of Power" UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3442249 ER -