Medieval Transformations Texts Power And Gifts In Context

Author : Esther Cohen,Mayke de Jong
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004476400

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Medieval Transformations: Texts, Power, and Gifts in Context by Esther Cohen,Mayke de Jong Pdf

This volume deals with shifts and changes that took place during the Middle Ages when things, or ideas, or writings, were transferred from time to time, place to place, or one ideological realm to another. The same objects, ideas, or texts changed their meaning, impact, or symbolic value according to different contexts. The twelve papers, written by leading experts, investigate the authority attributed to texts and their canonization in different contexts; the shifting uses and meanings of gifts, from honorable instruments in the settlement of disputes to corruption and bribery; and the transition of violence and power from relationships between equals to a tool for the maintenance of hierarchies. Contributors include: Gadi Algazi, Monique Bernards, Arnoud-Jan Bijsterveld, Esther Cohen, Valentin Groebner, Yitzhak Hen, Mayke de Jong, Rob Meens, Marco Mostert, Thomas F.X. Noble, Timothy Reuter, Hendrik Teunis, and Stephen D. White.

Author : Neil Murphy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004313712

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Ceremonial Entries, Municipal Liberties and the Negotiation of Power in Valois France, 1328-1589 by Neil Murphy Pdf

In a fresh examination of the French ceremonial entry, Neil Murphy considers the role these events played in the negotiation between urban elites and the Valois monarchy for rights and liberties. Moving away from the customary focus on the pageantry, this book focuses on how urban governments used these ceremonies to offer the ruler (or his representatives) petitions regarding their rights, liberties and customs. Drawing on extensive research, he shows that ceremonial entries lay at the heart of how the state functioned in later medieval and Renaissance France.

Author : Lars Kjær
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424028

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The Medieval Gift and the Classical Tradition by Lars Kjær Pdf

Explores how classical ideals of generosity influenced the writing and practice of gift giving in medieval Europe.

Author : Felicity Heal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199542956

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The Power of Gifts by Felicity Heal Pdf

This study considers the nature of gift-giving in early-modern England - looking at what gifts were, how they were offered and received, and what did they mean politically under the different monarchs of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Author : Alice Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198749202

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The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290 by Alice Taylor Pdf

This study of Scottish royal government in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries uses untapped legal evidence to set out a new narrative of governmental development. Between 1124 and 1290, the way in which kings of Scots ruled their kingdom transformed. By 1290 accountable officials, a system of royal courts, and complex common law procedures had all been introduced, none of which could have been envisaged in 1124.

Author : Wojtek Jezierski,Kim Esmark,Hans Jacob Orning,Jón Viðar Sigurðsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000200119

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Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume III by Wojtek Jezierski,Kim Esmark,Hans Jacob Orning,Jón Viðar Sigurðsson Pdf

This book explores the practical and symbolic resources of legitimacy which the elites of medieval Scandinavia employed to establish, justify, and reproduce their social and political standing between the end of the Viking Age and the rise of kingdoms in the thirteenth century. Geographically the chapters cover the Scandinavian realms and Free State Iceland. Thematically the authors cover a wide palette of cultural practices and historical sources: hagiography, historiography, spaces and palaces, literature, and international connections, which rulers, magnates or ecclesiastics used to compete for status and to reserve haloing glory for themselves. The volume is divided in three sections. The first looks at the sacral, legal, and acclamatory means through which privilege was conferred onto kings and ruling families. Section Two explores the spaces such as aristocratic halls, palaces, churches in which the social elevation of elites took place. Section Three explores the traditional and novel means of domestic distinction and international cultural capital which different orders of elites – knights, powerful clerics, ruling families etc. – wrought to assure their dominance and set themselves apart vis-à-vis their peers and subjects. A concluding chapter discusses how the use of symbolic capital in the North compared to wider European contexts.

Author : Renie S. Choy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192511010

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Intercessory Prayer and the Monastic Ideal in the Time of the Carolingian Reforms by Renie S. Choy Pdf

In early medieval Europe, monasticism constituted a significant force in society because the prayers of the religious on behalf of others featured as powerful currency. The study of this phenomenon is at once full of potential and peril, rightly drawing attention to the wider social involvement of an otherwise exclusive group, but also describing a religious community in terms of its service provision. Previous scholarship has focused on the supply and demand of prayer within the medieval economy of power, patronage, and gift exchange. Intercessory Prayer and the Monastic Ideal in the Time of the Carolingian Reforms is the first volume to explain how this transactional dimension of prayer factored into monastic spirituality. Renie S. Choy uncovers the relationship between the intercessory function of monasteries and the ascetic concern for moral conversion in the minds of prominent religious leaders active between c. 750-820. Through sustained analysis of the devotional thought of Benedict of Aniane and contemporaneous religious reformers during the reigns of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious, Choy examines key topics in the study of Carolingian monasticism: liturgical organization and the intercessory performances of the Mass and the Divine Office, monastic theology, and relationships of prayer within monastic communities and with the world outside. Arguing that monastic leaders showed new interest on the intersection between the interiority of prayer and the functional world of social relationships, this study reveals the ascetic ideal undergirding the provision of intercessory prayer by monasteries.

Author : G.R. Evans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857726643

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The I.B.Tauris History of Monasticism by G.R. Evans Pdf

From the earliest centuries of the church, asceticism and the contemplative life have been profoundly important aspects of western Christianity. And in assessing the glories of western civilization, perhaps the best place to start is within medieval monastic institutions, not outside of them. For while monasteries withdrew from the main currents of their societies, until the rise of universities in the 12th century they provided fertile soil and sanctuary to the liberal arts and sciences as well as those who wanted to spend their lives focused upon God. They became the driving cultural forces of Europe, nurturing education, music, manuscript illumination, art and history, agriculture, animal husbandry - all in addition to spiritual guidance. In this first general history of monasticism since 1900, Andrea Dickens explores the cloistered communities and individuals who have aspired to the ascetic ideal in their religious life, assessing the impact they have made on the wider church and its practices. She discusses some of the best known names in Christian history - including Cuthbert, Columba, Hilda of Whitby, Peter Abelard and Thomas Merton - and traces the monastic impulse from its beginnings in the Egyptian desert through the Rule of St Benedict, Cluny's foundation in 910, the austerity of the Cistercians, the legacy of women's houses, the critique of Luther and Calvin, Trappists and Catholic reform, up to the present-day ecumencial Taize community. Offering a lively and informed overview of western monasticism, the book will be essential reading for students of history and religion as well as the lay reader.

Author : Kim Esmark,Lars Hermanson,Hans Jacob Orning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000037340

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Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume II by Kim Esmark,Lars Hermanson,Hans Jacob Orning Pdf

Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050-1250, Volume II explores the structures and workings of social networks within the elites of medieval Scandinavia to reveal the intricate relationship between power and status. Section one of this volume categorizes basic types of personal bonds, both vertical and horizontal, while section two charts patterns of local, regional and transnational elite networks from wide-scope, longitudinal perspectives. Finally, the third section turns to case-studies of networks in action, analyzing strategies and transactions implied by uses of social resources in specific micro-political settings. A concluding chapter discusses how social power in the North compared to wider European experiences. A wide range of sources and methodologies is applied to reveal how networks were established, maintained, and put to use – and how they transformed in processes of centralizing power and formalizing hierarchies. The engagement with and analysis of intriguing primary source material has produced a key teaching tool for instructors and essential reading for students interested in the workings of medieval Scandinavia, elite class structures, and Social and Political History more generally.

Author : H. B. Teunis
Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9065509046

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The Appeal to the Original Status by H. B. Teunis Pdf

Author : Stephen D. White
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000939385

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Re-Thinking Kinship and Feudalism in Early Medieval Europe by Stephen D. White Pdf

This is the second collection of studies by Stephen D. White to be published by Variorum (the first being Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Century France). The essays in this volume look principally at France and England from Merovingian and Anglo-Saxon times up to the 12th century. They analyze Latin and Old French discourses that medieval nobles used to construct their relationships with kin, lords, men, and friends, and investigate the political dimensions of such relationships with particular reference to patronage/clientage, the use of land as an item of exchange, and feuding. In so doing, the essays call into question the conventional practice of studying kinship and feudalism as independent systems of legal institutions and propose new strategies for studying them.

Author : Benjamin Pohl
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781903153543

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Dudo of Saint-Quentin's Historia Normannorum by Benjamin Pohl Pdf

Interdisciplinary study of one of the most important texts of the Anglo-Norman period.

Author : Lars Kjaer,Gustavs Strenga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350183711

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Gift-Giving and Materiality in Europe, 1300-1600 by Lars Kjaer,Gustavs Strenga Pdf

Gift-giving played an important role in political, social and religious life in medieval and early modern Europe. This volume explores an under-examined and often-overlooked aspect of this phenomenon: the material nature of the gift. Drawing on examples from both medieval and early modern Europe, the authors from the UK and across Europe explore the craftsmanship involved in the production of gifts and the use of exotic objects and animals, from elephant bones to polar bears and 'living' holy objects, to communicate power, class and allegiance. Gifts were publicly given, displayed and worn and so the book explores the ways in which, as tangible objects, gifts could help to construct religious and social worlds. But the beauty and material richness of the gift could also provoke anxieties. Classical and Christian authorities agreed that, in gift-giving, it was supposed to be the thought that counted and consequently wealth and grandeur raised worries about greed and corruption: was a valuable ring payment for sexual services or a token of love and a promise of marriage? Over three centuries, Gift-Giving and Materiality in Europe, 1300-1600: Gifts as Objects reflects on the possibilities, practicalities and concerns raised by the material character of gifts.

Author : John Eldevik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139535991

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Episcopal Power and Ecclesiastical Reform in the German Empire by John Eldevik Pdf

Focusing on the way bishops in the eleventh century used the ecclesiastical tithe - church taxes - to develop or re-order ties of loyalty and dependence within their dioceses, this book offers a new perspective on episcopacy in medieval Germany and Italy. Using three broad case studies from the dioceses of Mainz, Salzburg and Lucca in Tuscany, John Eldevik places the social dynamics of collecting the church tithe within current debates about religious reform, social change and the so-called 'feudal revolution' in the eleventh century, and analyses a key economic institution, the medieval tithe, as a social and political phenomenon. By examining episcopal churches and their possessions not in institutional terms, but as social networks which bishops were obliged to negotiate and construct over time using legal, historiographical and interpersonal means, this comparative study casts fresh light on the history of early medieval society.

Author : Erika Graham-Goering
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108489096

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Princely Power in Late Medieval France by Erika Graham-Goering Pdf

An in-depth study of coexisting social norms of princely power cutting across categories of hierarchy, gender, and collaborative rulership.