Order and Innovation in the Middle Ages : : Essays in Honor of Joseph R. Strayer / / ed. by William Chester Jordan, Teofilo F. Ruiz, Bruce McNab.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• MitwirkendeR: Baker, Robert L.,; Benton, John F.,; Bisson, Thomas N.,; Bowsky, William M.,; Brown, Elizabeth A. R.,; Cheyette, Fredric,; Constable, Giles,; DeSoignie, Raphael R.,; Freed, John B.,; Hill, Bennett D.,; Jordan, William C.,; Kaeuper, Richard W.,; Kreisler, Frederic F.,; Lerner, Robert E.,; Lewis, Archibald R.,; Little, Lester K.,; Lopez, Robert S.,; McNab, Bruce,; Post, Gaines,; Radding, Charles M.,; Rogozinski, Jan,; Rotz, Rhiman A.,; Ruiz, Teofilo F.,; Wolff, Philippe,; Wood, Charles T.,
• HerausgeberIn: Jordan, William Chester,; McNab, Bruce,; Ruiz, Teofilo F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1976
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1529
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (596 p.)

The Middle Ages were for many years generally viewed as a period when faith and order supported a rigid society. By painstaking archival research, historians such as Joseph R. Strayer and the contributors to this volume have gradually replaced this view with a regard for the period as a time of grea...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Part I. Organization and Administration in Medieval Government
• Chapter 1. Domesday Book and the Anglo-Norman Synthesis
• Chapter 2. Cluniac Administration and Administrators in the Twelfth Century
• Chapter 3. The Friars and the Delineation of State Boundaries in the Thirteenth Century
• Chapter 4. The Administrators of the Aids in Normandy, 1360-1380
• Chapter 5. Italian Diplomatic History: A Case for the Smaller Commune
• Part II. Finance: Money and Prices
• Chapter 6. The Significance of the "Feudal Period" in the Monetary History of Europe
• Chapter 7. Credit, Prices and Agrarian Production in Catalonia: a Templar Account (1180-1188)
• Chapter 8. Royal Finance and the Crisis of 1297
• Chapter 9. The Accounts of Cepperello da Prato for the Tax on Nouveaux Acquits in the Bailliage of Troyes
• Part III. Medieval Trade and Urban Life
• Chapter 10. Northern European Sea Power and the Straits of Gibraltar, 1031-1350 A.D.
• Chapter 11. Supplying Aigues-Mortes for the Crusade of 1248: The Problem of Restructuring Trade
• Chapter 12. Castilian Merchants in England, 1248-1350
• Chapter 13. Proxy in Medieval Trade
• Chapter 14. The Fairs of Nimes: Evidence on Their Function, Importance, and Demise
• Chapter 15. The Government of Calais in 1363
• Chapter 16. Investigating Urban Uprisings with Examples from Hanseatic Towns, 1374-1416
• Part IV. The Social Order
• Chapter 17. The Counts of Mortain and the Origins of theNorman Congregation of Savigny
• Chapter 18. The Castles of the Trencavels: A Preliminary Aerial Survey
• Chapter 19. Ennoblement by the Crown and Social Stratification in France 1285-1322: A Prosopographical Survey
• Chapter 20. Obligations of the Church in English Society: Military Arrays of the Clergy, 1369-1418
• Part V. Personality and Ethics: The Spirit of Man in the Middle Ages
• Chapter 21. The Personal Development of Peter Damian
• Chapter 22. An "Angel of Philadelphia" in the Reign of Philip the Fair: The Case of Guiard of Cressonessart
• Chapter 23. Royal Salvation and Needs of State in Late Capetian France
• Chapter 24. Queens, Queans, and Kingship: An Inquiry into Theories of Royal Legitimacy in Late Medieval England and France
• Chapter 25. Philosophy and Citizenship in the Thirteenth Century--Laicisation, the Two Laws and Aristotle
• Footnotes
• Index