Cultures of Power : Lordship, Status, and Process in Twelfth-Century Europe.

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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