Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the
Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of
men who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility.
Rethinking a familiar history, Thomas Bisson explores the
circumstances that impelled knights, emperors, nobles, and
churchmen to infuse lordship with social purpose. Bisson traces the
origins of European government to a crisis of lordship and its
resolution. King John of England was only the latest and most
conspicuous in a gallery of bad lords who dominated the populace
instead of ruling it. Yet, it was not so much the oppressed people
as their tormentors who were in crisis. The Crisis of the Twelfth
Century suggests what these violent people--and the outcries they
provoked--contributed to the making of governments in kingdoms,
principalities, and towns.
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