Reframing the feudal revolution : political and social transformation between Marne and Moselle, c. 800 to c. 1100 /
Revisits the idea of a 'Feudal Revolution' in Europe between 800 and 1100, examining the causes of profound socio-economic change.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Colección: | Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought. Fourth series ;
bk. 90. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- The historiographical background
- The place of the Carolingians in the Feudal Revolution
- Methodology
- Geography and sources
- Part I. The Parameters of Carolingian Society
- 1. Institutional integration
- Counts and the locality
- Bishops and episcopal organisation
- Royal power
- Conclusion: Structures of authority
- 2. Networks of inequality
- Aristocratic solidarities and the limits of Carolingian institutions of rule
- The logic of aristocratic dominance
- Conclusion: The dominance of lordship?
- 3. Carolingian co-ordinations
- Carolingian symbolic communication between Marne and Moselle : gifts, violence and meetings
- Characterising Carolingian symbolic communication
- From symbolic communication to economies of meaning
- Conclusion
- Part II. The long tenth-century, c. 880 to c. 1030
- 4. The ebbing of royal power
- The distancing of royal authority
- Post-royal politics
- The causes for the retreat of royal power
- Conclusion
- 5. New hierarchies
- The transformation of the Carolingian county
- Lords and landlords in the long tenth century
- Ritual and society in the tenth century
- Conclusion: "Symbolic impoverishment"
- Part III. The exercise of authority through property rights, c. 1030-1130
- 6. The banality of power
- The rise of banal power
- The reification of political power
- Material consequences
- Conclusion
- 7. Fiefs, Homage and the "Investiture Quarrel"
- Fiefs and dependent property
- Homage
- The "Investiture Quarrel"
- Towards a "secular liturgy"?
- Conclusion
- 8. Upper Lotharingia and Champagne around 1100
- The new political landscape between Marne and Moselle
- Upper Lotharingia and Champagne compared
- Architectures of power
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: Between the "long twelfth century" and the settlement of disputes
- Reframing the Feudal Revolution : the Carolingian legacy
- Manuscripts index.