Politics And Power In Early Medieval Europe

Author : Hans J. Hummer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139448543

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Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe by Hans J. Hummer Pdf

How exactly did political power operate in early medieval Europe? Taking Alsace as his focus, Hans Hummer offers an intriguing new case study on localised and centralised power and the relationship between the two from c. 600–1000. Providing a panoramic survey of the sources from the region, which include charters, notarial formulas, royal instruments, and Old High German literature, he untangles the networks of monasteries and kin groups which made up the political landscape of Alsace, and shows the significance of monastic control in shaping that landscape. He also investigates this local structure in light of comparative evidence from other regions. He tracks the emergence of the distinctive local order during the seventh century to its eventual decline in the late tenth century in the face of radical monastic reform. Highly original and well balanced, this 2006 work is of interest to all students of medieval political structures.

Author : Frans Theuws,Mayke B. de Jong,Carine Van Rhijn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004117341

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Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages by Frans Theuws,Mayke B. de Jong,Carine Van Rhijn Pdf

Saint-Maurice d'Agaune - Gudme - Vistula - Francia - Maastricht - Aachen - Gaul - Cordoba.

Author : Janet Laughland Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012421171

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Politics and Ritual in Early Medieval Europe by Janet Laughland Nelson Pdf

Author : Barbara H. Rosenwein
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501718687

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Negotiating Space by Barbara H. Rosenwein Pdf

Why did early medieval kings declare certain properties to be immune from the judicial and fiscal encroachments of their own agents? Did weakness compel them to prohibit their agents from entering these properties, as historians have traditionally believed? In a richly detailed book that will be greeted as a landmark addition to the literature on the Middle Ages, Barbara H. Rosenwein argues that immunities were markers of power. By placing restraints on themselves and their agents, kings demonstrated their authority, affirmed their status, and manipulated the boundaries of sacred space.Rosenwein transforms our understanding of an institution central to the political and social dynamics of medieval Europe. She reveals how immunities were used by kings and other leaders to forge alliances with the noble families and monastic centers that were central to their power. Generally viewed as unchanging juridical instruments, immunities as they appear here are as fluid and diverse as the disparate social and political conflicts that they at once embody and seek to defuse. Their legacy reverberates in the modern world, where liberal institutions, with their emphasis on state restraint, clash with others that encourage governmental intrusion. The protections against unreasonable searches and seizures provided by English common law and the U.S. Constitution developed in part out of the medieval experience of immunities and the institutions that were elaborated to breach them.

Author : Matthew Innes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139425582

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State and Society in the Early Middle Ages by Matthew Innes Pdf

This book, first published in 2000, is a pioneering study of politics and society in the early Middle Ages. Whereas it is widely believed that the source materials for early medieval Europe are too sparse to allow sustained study of the workings of social and political relationships on the ground, this book focuses on a uniquely well-documented area to investigate the basis of power. Topics covered include the foundation of monasteries, their relationship with the laity, and their role as social centres; the significance of urbanism; the control of land, the development of property rights and the organization of states; community, kinship and lordship; justice and dispute settlement; the uses of the written word; violence and the feud; and the development of political structures from the Roman empire to the high Middle Ages.

Author : Joseph Canning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134981434

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A History of Medieval Political Thought by Joseph Canning Pdf

Incorporating research previously unavailable in English, this clear guide gives a synthesis of the latest scholarship providing the historical and intellectual context for political ideas. This accessible and lucid guide to medieval political thought * gives a synthesis of the latest scholarship * incorporates the results of research until now unavailable in English * focuses on the crucial primary source material * provides the historical and intellectual context for political ideas. The book covers four periods, each with a different focus: * 300-750 - Christian ideas of rulership * 750-1050 - the Carolingian period and its aftermath * 1050-1290 - the relationship between temporal and spiritual power, and the revived legacy of antiquity * 1290-1450 - the confrontation with political reality in ideas of church and of state, and in juristic thought. Canning has produced an ideal introductory text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of the period.

Author : Joseph Canning
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139504959

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

Through a focused and systematic examination of late medieval scholastic writers - theologians, philosophers and jurists - Joseph Canning explores how ideas about power and legitimate authority were developed over the 'long fourteenth century'. The author provides a new model for understanding late medieval political thought, taking full account of the intensive engagement with political reality characteristic of writers in this period. He argues that they used Aristotelian and Augustinian ideas to develop radically new approaches to power and authority, especially in response to political and religious crises. The book examines the disputes between King Philip IV of France and Pope Boniface VIII and draws upon the writings of Dante Alighieri, Marsilius of Padua, William of Ockham, Bartolus, Baldus and John Wyclif to demonstrate the variety of forms of discourse used in the period. It focuses on the most fundamental problem in the history of political thought - where does legitimate authority lie?

Author : Paul Kershaw
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198208709

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Peaceful Kings by Paul Kershaw Pdf

The first full scholarly exploration of the relationship between the idea of peace and rulership through Europe's formative centuries, Peaceful Kings asks what peace meant to early medieval people, and to what extent royal intentions endeavoured to meet collective expectations.

Author : José C. Sánchez-Pardo,Michael G. Shapland
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Archaeology, Medieval
ISBN : 2503545556

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Churches and Social Power in Early Medieval Europe by José C. Sánchez-Pardo,Michael G. Shapland Pdf

Local churches were an established part of many towns and villages across early medieval Western Europe, and their continued presence make them an invaluable marker for comparing different societies. Up to now, however, the dynamics of power behind church building and the importance of their presence within the landscape have largely been neglected. This book takes a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to the study of early medieval churches, drawing together archaeology, history, architecture, and landscape studies in order to explore the relationship between church foundation, social power, and political organization across Europe. Key subjects addressed here include the role played by local elites and the importance of the church in buttressing authority, as well as the connections between archaeology and ideology, and the importance of individual church buildings in their broader landscape contexts. Bringing together case-studies from diverse regions across Western Europe (Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, France, the British Isles, Denmark, and Iceland), the seventeen contributions to this volume offer new insights into the relationships between church foundations, social power, and political organization. In doing so, they provide a means to better understand social power in the landscape of early medieval Europe.

Author : Wendy Davies,Paul Fouracre
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521522250

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Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages by Wendy Davies,Paul Fouracre Pdf

A collection of original essays on the relationship between property and power in early medieval Europe.

Author : Jennifer R. Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351886369

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The Long Morning of Medieval Europe by Jennifer R. Davis Pdf

Recent advances in research show that the distinctive features of high medieval civilization began developing centuries earlier than previously thought. The era once dismissed as a "Dark Age" now turns out to have been the long morning of the medieval millennium: the centuries from AD 500 to 1000 witnessed the dawn of developments that were to shape Europe for centuries to come. In 2004, historians, art historians, archaeologists, and literary specialists from Europe and North America convened at Harvard University for an interdisciplinary conference exploring new directions in the study of that long morning of medieval Europe, the early Middle Ages. Invited to think about what seemed to each the most exciting new ways of investigating the early development of western European civilization, this impressive group of international scholars produced a wide-ranging discussion of innovative types of research that define tomorrow's field today. The contributors, many of whom rarely publish in English, test approaches extending from using ancient DNA to deducing cultural patterns signified by thousands of medieval manuscripts of saints' lives. They examine the archaeology of slave labor, economic systems, disease history, transformations of piety, the experience of power and property, exquisite literary sophistication, and the construction of the meaning of palace spaces or images of the divinity. The book illustrates in an approachable style the vitality of research into the early Middle Ages, and the signal contributions of that era to the future development of western civilization. The chapters cluster around new approaches to five key themes: the early medieval economy; early medieval holiness; representation and reality in early medieval literary art; practices of power in an early medieval empire; and the intellectuality of early medieval art and architecture. Michael McCormick's brief introductions open each part of the volume; synthetic essays by accomplished specialists conclude them. The editors summarize the whole in a synoptic introduction. All Latin terms and citations and other foreign-language quotations are translated, making this work accessible even to undergraduates. The Long Morning of Medieval Europe: New Directions in Early Medieval Studies presents innovative research across the wide spectrum of study of the early Middle Ages. It exemplifies the promising questions and methodologies at play in the field today, and the directions that beckon tomorrow.

Author : Marios Costambeys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521178304

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Power and Patronage in Early Medieval Italy by Marios Costambeys Pdf

Founded around the beginning of the eighth century in the Sabine hills north of Rome, the abbey of Farfa was for centuries a barometer of social and political change in central Italy. Conventionally, the region's history in the early Middle Ages revolves around the rise of the papacy as a secular political power. But Farfa's avoidance of domination by the pope throughout its early medieval history, despite one pope's involvement in its early establishment, reveals that papal aggrandizement had strict limits. Other parties - local elites, as well as Lombard and then Carolingian rulers - were often more important in structuring power in the region. Many were also patrons of Farfa, and this book reveals how a major ecclesiastical institution operated in early medieval politics, as a conduit for others' interests, and a player in its own right.

Author : Jayne Carroll,Andrew J. Reynolds,Barbara Yorke
Publisher : Proceedings of the British Aca
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 0197266584

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Power and Place in Europe in the Early Middle Ages by Jayne Carroll,Andrew J. Reynolds,Barbara Yorke Pdf

This book reveals a high degree of organisational capacity in early medieval societies. It outlines a new agenda for assessing and interpreting early medieval power, how it was formed, how it functioned and how it developed across time providing the basis for the kingdoms of the European Middle Ages.

Author : Chris Wickham
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Italy
ISBN : 0472080997

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Early Medieval Italy by Chris Wickham Pdf

Discusses the social and economic development of Italy

Author : Brenda Bolton,Christine Meek
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,9 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.