Reframing the feudal revolution : political and social transformation between Marne and Moselle, c. 800 to c. 1100 /

Reframing the feudal revolution : political and social transformation between Marne and Moselle, c. 800 to c. 1100 / / Charles West.

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West, Charles, 1979-
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., 90
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Physical Description:xiii, 307 p. :; ill., map.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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