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This collection of essays makes an important contribution to our
knowledge of feudalism and finance in France and Spain. Divided
into four sections, it covers the use rulers made of courts,
parlements, and assemblies for ceremonial, political and fiscal
purposes; the institutional formation of Catalonia; comparative
studies of France, Catalonia and Aragon in the twelfth century; and
monetary and fiscal policies of contemporary rulers.
This collection is a notable example of how the cultural history of
the middle ages can be written in terms that satisfy both the
historian and the literary scholar. John Benton's knowledge of the
personnel, structure and finance of medieval courts complemented
his understanding of the literature they produced.
The first study of its kind in English in more than fifty years,
this book surveys the history of the medieval Crown of Aragon from
its early origins in counties of the eastern Pyrenees. Reviewing
the most recent research into the well-preserved archives of the
region, Bisson recreates a sense of the energy, drama, and color of
these creative and expansionist people between the 12th and 15th
centuries. Throughout, the book duly stresses individual
achievement and personality while at the same time providing a
balanced overview of political and dynastic evolution,
institutional foundations, economic and cultural affairs, and the
socio-economic weaknesses that eventually led to a crisis in the
federated realms in the late Middle Ages.
The authors of "Cultures of Power" proffer diverse perspectives
on the prehistory of government in Northern France, Spain, Germany,
the Low Countries, and England. Political, social, ecclesiastical,
and cultural history are brought to bear on topics such as
aristocracies, women, rituals, commemoration, and manifestations of
power through literary, legal, and scriptural means.
This collection of essays by the eminent historian Joseph Strayer
makes available in one volume his important shorter studies on the
central theme of the political, constitutional, and institutional
history of France and England in the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy
Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
The author demonstrates that medieval assemblies have a significant
history well before the great age of parliaments and Estates. He
deals with assemblies, council, and consent, and shows how the
older procedures were transformed by the increasingly bureaucratic
Capetian governments after the royal conquest of Languedoc in the
13th century. Originally published in 1964. The Princeton Legacy
Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
Robert of Torigni's chronicle is a foremost source of information
about one of the most famous centres of power in the entire Middle
Ages: the court of King Henry II, duke of Normandy and king of
England (1154-89), and his wife Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine (d.
1204). In addition, it includes commentary on many contemporaneous
issues and concerns, notably about elections, successions, and
deaths of bishops and abbots in Normandy and England, but also
about events in France, the Empire, and the crusader kingdom in
Palestine.
The author demonstrates that medieval assemblies have a significant
history well before the great age of parliaments and Estates. He
deals with assemblies, council, and consent, and shows how the
older procedures were transformed by the increasingly bureaucratic
Capetian governments after the royal conquest of Languedoc in the
13th century. Originally published in 1964. The Princeton Legacy
Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
This collection of essays by the eminent historian Joseph Strayer
makes available in one volume his important shorter studies on the
central theme of the political, constitutional, and institutional
history of France and England in the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy
Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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.
Mute in life as in death, peasants of remote history rarely speak
to us in their own voices. But Thomas Bisson's engagement with the
records of several hundred twelfth-century people of rural
Catalonia enables us to hear these voices. The peasants'
allegations of abuse while in the service of their common lord the
Count of Barcelona and his son the King reveal a unique perspective
on the meaning of power both by those who felt and feared it, and
by those who wielded it. These records--original parchments, dating
much earlier than other comparable records of European peasant
life--name peasants in profusion and relate some of their stories.
Bisson describes these peasants socially and culturally, showing
how their experience figured in a wider crisis of power from the
twelfth century. His compassionate history considers demography,
naming patterns, gender, occupational identities, and habitats, as
well as power, coercion, and complaint, and the moralities of
faith, honor, and shame. He concludes with reflections on the
historical meanings of violence and suffering.
This rich contribution to medieval social and cultural history
and peasant studies suggests important resources and ideas for
historians and anthropologists.
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