Aspects Of Power And Authority In The Middle Ages

Author : Brenda Bolton,Christine Meek
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015076110652

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Aspects of Power and Authority in the Middle Ages by Brenda Bolton,Christine Meek Pdf

Concepts of power and authority and the relationship between them were fundamental to many aspects of medieval society. The essays in this collection present a series of case studies that range widely, both chronologically and geographically, from Lombard Italy to early-modern Iberia and from Anglo-Saxon, Norman, and later-medieval England to twelfth-century France and the lands beyond the Elbe in the conversion period. While some papers deal with traditional royal, princely and ecclesiastical authority, they do so in new ways. Others examine groups and aspects less obviously connected to power and authority, such as the networks of influence centring on royal women or powerful ecclesiastics, the power relationships revealed in Anglo-Saxon and Old-Norse literature or the influence that might be exercised by needy crusaders, by Jews with the ability to advance loans or by parish priests on the basis of their local connections. An important section discusses the power of the written word, whether papal bulls, collections of miracle stories, or the documents produced in lawsuits. The papers in this volume demonstrate the variety and multiplicity of both power and authority and the many ways by which individuals exercised influence and exerted a claim to be heard and respected.

Author : Sini Kangas,Mia Korpiola,Tuija Ainonen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110294569

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Authorities in the Middle Ages by Sini Kangas,Mia Korpiola,Tuija Ainonen Pdf

Medievalists reading and writing about and around authority-related themes lack clear definitions of its actual meanings in the medieval context. Authorities in the Middle Ages offers answers to this thorny issue through specialized investigations. This book considers the concept of authority and explores the various practices of creating authority in medieval society. In their studies sixteen scholars investigate the definition, formation, establishment, maintenance, and collapse of what we understand in terms of medieval struggles for authority, influence and power. The interdisciplinary nature of this volume resonates with the multi-faceted field of medieval culture, its social structures, and forms of communication. The fields of expertise include history, legal studies, theology, philosophy, politics, literature and art history. The scope of inquiry extends from late antiquity to the mid-fifteenth century, from the Church Fathers debating with pagans to the rapacious ghosts ruining the life of the living in the Sagas. There is a special emphasis on such exciting but understudied areas as the Balkans, Iceland and the eastern fringes of Scandinavia.

Author : Robert F. Berkhofer III,Alan Cooper,Adam J. Kosto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351889964

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The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe, 950–1350 by Robert F. Berkhofer III,Alan Cooper,Adam J. Kosto Pdf

Taking their inspiration from the work of Thomas N. Bisson, to whom the book is dedicated, the contributors to this volume explore the experience of power in medieval Europe: the experience of those who held power, those who helped them wield it, and those who felt its effects. The seventeen essays in the collection, which range geographically from England in the north to Castile in the south, and chronologically from the tenth century to the fourteenth, address a series of specific topics in institutional, social, religious, cultural, and intellectual history. Taken together, they present three distinct ways of discussing power in a medieval historical context: uses of power, relations of power, and discourses of power. The collection thus examines not only the operational and social aspects of power, but also power as a contested category within the medieval world. The Experience of Power suggests new and fruitful ways of understanding and studying power in the Middle Ages.

Author : Susan Broomhall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137531162

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Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England by Susan Broomhall Pdf

This collection explores how situations of authority, governance, and influence were practised through both gender ideologies and affective performances in medieval and early modern England. Authority is inherently relational it must be asserted over someone who allows or is forced to accept this dominance. The capacity to exercise authority is therefore a social and cultural act, one that is shaped by social identities such as gender and by social practices that include emotions. The contributions in this volume, exploring case studies of women and men's letter-writing, political and ecclesiastical governance, household rule, exercise of law and order, and creative agency, investigate how gender and emotions shaped the ways different individuals could assert or maintain authority, or indeed disrupt or provide alternatives to conventional practices of authority.

Author : Professor Robert C Figueira
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409479475

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Plenitude of Power by Professor Robert C Figueira Pdf

'I study power' – so Robert Louis Benson described his work as a scholar of medieval history. This volume unites papers by a number of his students dealing with matters central to Benson's historical interests – ecclesiastical institutions and administration, emperorship and papacy, canon law, political ideology, and historiography. The justification and exercise of political power is considered in two chapters that look at how the hagiography of a late Roman military saint, Maurice, was harnessed in the 11th century to the discussion of the power exercised by both emperor and pope, and how both pious purpose and political pretext animated the Hohenstaufen emperors' suppression of heresy. Three subsequent chapters focus on the Church: a study of the legal commentaries that taught that the 'authority to bind and loose' in a specific ecclesiastical matter could be determined by the opinions of 'the elders of the province'; an argument that Innocent III's administration of the Roman church represented a model for the ordering of all Christian society; and an inquiry into the doctrinal formation of the 'territorial principle' in the exercise of jurisdiction by papal legates. The late Middle Ages provides the focus for two additional studies, namely an exploration of the issues of power and authority in the charitable institutions of Cologne in the 13th–14th centuries, and the argument that the current desire for universal standards of governmental conduct in the area of basic human rights hearkens back to natural law theory as outlined in the 15th century by Nicholas of Cusa. Two historiographical studies round out the volume: an estimation of modern research regarding the political theology of late antiquity, and a reflection on Benson's own contribution to historical scholarship. Together, these papers both epitomize and further develop Benson's distinctive approach to the study of the Middle Ages, while themselves making their own important contribution.

Author : Pollie Bromilow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317176954

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Authority in European Book Culture 1400-1600 by Pollie Bromilow Pdf

Through its many and varied manifestations, authority has frequently played a role in the communication process in both manuscript and print. This volume explores how authority, whether religious, intellectual, political or social, has enforced the circulation of certain texts and text versions, or acted to prevent the distribution of books, pamphlets and other print matter. It also analyzes how readers, writers and printers have sometimes rebelled against the constraints and restrictions of authority, publishing controversial works anonymously or counterfeiting authoritative texts; and how the written or printed word itself has sometimes been perceived to have a kind of authority, which might have had ramifications in social, political or religious spheres. Contributors look at the experience of various European cultures-English, French, German and Italian-to allow for comparative study of a number of questions pertinent to the period. Among the issues explored are local and regional factors influencing book production; the interplay between manuscript and print culture; the slippage between authorship and authority; and the role of civic and religious authority in cultural production. Deliberately conceived to foster interdisciplinary dialogue between the history of the book, and literary and cultural history, this volume takes a pan-European perspective to explore the ways in which authority infiltrates and is in turn propagated or undermined by book culture.

Author : Ludger Körntgen,Dominik Waßenhoven
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110262049

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Religion and Politics in the Middle Ages by Ludger Körntgen,Dominik Waßenhoven Pdf

The increased interest in religion as a phenomenon and its various cultural contexts is encouraging a focus on the relationship between religion and politics. However, the political relevance of the religious and the interdependence between political and religious spheres has always been a major area of medieval research. The articles in this volume consider not only the principle inseparability of both spheres as previously established by research, but also the beginnings of a differentiation and relative autonomy of religion and politics within the framework of a comparison between Germany and the United Kingdom. This allows the identification of restrictions within the research traditions that are due to national histories and points to ways of overcoming these restrictions.

Author : Juliana Dresvina,Nicholas Sparks
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443844284

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Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles by Juliana Dresvina,Nicholas Sparks Pdf

This volume is an attempt to discuss the ways in which themes of authority and gender can be traced in the writing of chronicles and chronicle-like writings from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance. With major contributions by fourteen authors, each of them specialists in the field, this study spans full across the compass of medieval and early modern Europe, from England and Scandinavia, to Byzantium and the Crusader Kingdoms; embraces a variety of media and methods; and touches evidence from diverse branches of learning such as language and literature, history and art, to name just a few. This is an important collection which will be of the highest utility for students and scholars of language, literature, and history for many years to come.

Author : Joseph Canning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Authority
ISBN : 1139189700

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Ideas of Power in the Late Middle Ages, 1296-1417 by Joseph Canning Pdf

Proposes a radically new interpretation of late medieval political thought by focusing on ideas of power and authority.

Author : Katherine Weikert
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783275120

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Authority, Gender and Space in the Anglo-Norman World, 900-1200 by Katherine Weikert Pdf

SHORTLISTED for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Hitchcock Medallion. A ground-breaking interdisciplinary approach to the medieval manor pre- and post-Conquest.

Author : Robert Antonín
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004341128

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The Ideal Ruler in Medieval Bohemia by Robert Antonín Pdf

The Ideal Ruler in Medieval Bohemia discusses the development of medieval concepts and ideas about just and unjust rulership in medieval Bohemia. This theme is examined in the context of the European political thinking between 6th and 14th centuries.

Author : John F. Szabo,Nicholas E. Kuefler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442251564

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The Bayeux Tapestry by John F. Szabo,Nicholas E. Kuefler Pdf

With over 1780 entries, Szabo and Kuefler offer the largest and most heavily annotated bibliography on the Tapestry ever written.

Author : Thomas W. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Autorität
ISBN : 2503585299

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Authority and Power in the Medieval Church, C. 1000-c. 1500 by Thomas W. Smith Pdf

While they often go hand-in-hand and the distinction between the two is frequently blurred, authority and power are distinct concepts and abilities - this was a problem that the Church tussled with throughout the High and Late Middle Ages. Claims of authority, efforts to have that authority recognized, and the struggle to transform it into more tangible forms of power were defining factors of the medieval Church's existence. As the studies assembled here demonstrate, claims to authority by members of the Church were often in inverse proportion to their actual power - a problematic paradox which resulted from the uneven and uncertain acceptance of ecclesiastical authority by lay powers and, indeed, fellow members of the ecclesia. The chapters of this book reveal how clerical claims to authority and power were frequently debated, refined, opposed, and resisted in their expression and implementation. The clergy had to negotiate a complex landscape of overlapping and competing claims in pursuit of their rights. They waged these struggles in arenas that ranged from papal, royal, and imperial curiae, through monastic houses, law courts and parliaments, urban religious communities and devotional networks, to contact and conflict with the laity on the ground; the weapons deployed included art, manuscripts, dress, letters, petitions, treatises, legal claims, legates, and the physical arms of allied lay powers. In an effort to further our understanding of this central aspect of ecclesiastical history, this interdisciplinary volume, which effects a broad temporal, geographical, and thematic sweep, points the way to new avenues of research and new approaches to a traditional topic. It fuses historical methodologies with art history, gender studies, musicology, and material culture, and presents fresh insights into one of the most significant institutions of the medieval world.

Author : Frank Furedi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107007284

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Authority by Frank Furedi Pdf

'Who is in authority?' is a question we can no longer answer with confidence. This history of authority explains why.

Author : Thomas W. Smith,Brepols
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 2503585302

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Authority and Power in the Medieval Church, C. 1000-c. 1500 by Thomas W. Smith,Brepols Pdf