The crisis of the twelfth century : power, lordship, and the origins of European government / Thomas N. Bisson.

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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; PREFACE; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; Usage and Conventions; ABBREVIATIONS; I. Introduction; II. The Age of Lordship (875-1150); Old Order; The Quest for Lordship and Nobility; CONSTRAINT, VIOLENCE, AND DISRUPTION; Cultures of Lordship; III. Lord-Rulership (1050-1150): The Experience of Power; The Papacy; West Mediterranean Realms; LEÓN AND CASTILE; IN SIGHT OF THE PYRENEES; Imperial Lands; BAVARIA; LOMBARDY; France; ANJOU; FLANDERS; Northern Kingdoms; CAPETIAN FRANCE; NORMAN ENGLAND; IV. Crises of Power (1060-1150); Uneasy Maturity; Dynastic Anxiety.

ANXIOUS FULFILLMENTSThe Church; Troubled Societies; THE SAXON REVOLT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES (1073-1125); CASTLED FRANCE (CA. 1100-1137); TROUBLES ON THE PILGRIMS' ROAD (1109-36); FLANDERS: THE MURDER OF CHARLES THE GOOD (1127-28); ENGLAND: 'WHEN CHRIST AND HIS SAINTS SLEPT' (1137-54); An Age of Tyranny?; V. Resolution: Intrusions of Government (1150-1215); Great Lordship in Prosperity and Crisis; 'SHADOWS OF PEACE'; Aquitaine: Princes of Ill Repute; Anjou: The Tyranny of Giraud Berlai; A Tyrannical Bishop : Aldebert of Mende (1151-87); The Justice of Accountability.

THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF FIDELITY (1075-1150)Prescriptive Accountancy; TOWARDS AN ACCOUNTABILITY OF OFFICE (1085-1200); A Dynamic of Fiscal Growth (ca. 1090-1160); Towards a New Technique (ca. 1110-75); ENGLAND: PIPE ROLLS AND EXCHEQUER; FLANDERS: THE GROTE BRIEF AND ITS ORIGINS; SICILY: PLURI-CULTURAL CONSERVANCY?; CATALONIA: FROM EXPLOITATION TO AGENCY; Constraint, Compromise, and Office; CHARTERS OF FRANCHISE: SOME LESSONS; THRESHOLDS OF OFFICE; In Sight of Our Lady's Towers; Working with Power; CATALONIA; ENGLAND; FRANCE; THE ROMAN CHURCH; VI. Celebration and Persuasion (1160-1225).

Cultures of PowerSUNG FIDELITY; COURTLY TALK; LEARNED MORALISING; EXPERTISE: TWO FACETS; Knowing; Knowing How; Pacification; THE CAPUCHINS OF VELAY; Politicised Power; THE CRISIS OF CATALONIA (1173-1205); THE CRISIS OF MAGNA CARTA (1212-15); States and Estates of Power; THE STATES OF TROUBLED REALMS; THE GREAT LORDSHIP OF CONSENSUS; TOWARDS ESTATES OF ASSOCIATIVE POWER; TOWARDS A PARLIAMENTARY CUSTOM OF CONSENT; VII. Epilogue; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

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.

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