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Medieval Polities and Modern Mentalities.
Timothy Reuter was a perceptive and original thinker, a medievalist with extraordinary range. This collection of his essays addresses three themes: historiography and the development of the modern study of the medieval past; the importance of symbolic action and communication; and the need to avoid...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Leiden :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Contents; Editor's note; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Editor's introduction; CHAPTER 1 Modern mentalities and medieval polities; CHAPTER 2 Medieval: another tyrannous construct?; CHAPTER 3 The insecurity of travel in the early and high Middle Ages: criminals, victims and their medieval and modern observers; CHAPTER 4 Debating the 'feudal revolution'; CHAPTER 5 Pre-Gregorian mentalities; CHAPTER 6 Whose race, whose ethnicity? Recent medievalists' discussions of identity; CHAPTER 7 Nobles and others: the social and cultural expression of power relations in the Middle Ages.
- CHAPTER 8 Regemque, quem in Francia pene perdidit, in patria magnifice recepitCHAPTER 9 Contextualising Canossa: excommunication, penance, surrender, reconciliation; CHAPTER 10 Velle sibi fieri in forma hac; CHAPTER 11 Assembly politics in western Europe from the eighth century to the twelfth; CHAPTER 12 Sex, lies and oath-helpers: the trial of Queen Uota; CHAPTER 13 Plunder and tribute in the Carolingian empire; CHAPTER 14 The e.