An interdisciplinary approach to a crucial part of the systems of
medieval authority and governance. In the medieval world, what
happened when a figure of recognised authority was absent? What
terminology, principles and solutions of proxy authority were
developed and adopted? Did these solutions differ and change over
time depending on whether the absence was short or long and caused
by issues of incapacity, minority, disputed succession, geography
or elective absenteeism? Did the models of proxy authority adopted
by ruling dynasties and large institutions influence the proxy
choices of lesser authority? The circumstances and consequences of
absentee authority, a major aspect of the systems of medieval
power, are the focus of this volume. Ranging across the realms of
medieval Europe (but with a focus upon the British Isles and
France), its essays embrace a wide variety of experience - royal,
parliamentary, conciliar, magnatial, military, ecclesiastical
(papal to parochial), burghal, household, minoror major, male or
female, exiled, captive or infirm - and explore not merely
political developments, but the dynastic, diplomatic, financial,
ideological, religious and cultural ramifications of such episodes.
Frederique Lachaud is Professor of medieval history at the
Universite de Lorraine, France; Michael Penman is Senior Lecturer
in history at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Contributors:
James Bothwell Michelle Bubenicek, Leonard Dauphant , Bruno
Dumezil, Laurent Hablot, Torsten Hiltmann, Tom Horler-Underwood,
Robert Houghton, Olivier de Laborderie, Frederique Lachaud, Hans
Jacob Orning, Michael Penman. Norman Reid
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