The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe, 950–1350 (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction, Robert F. Berkhofer III, Alan Cooper and Adam J. Kosto. Part I The Use of Power: Heirs to the Apostles: saintly power and ducal authority in hagiography of early Normandy, Samantha Kahn Herrick; The provisions of Oxford: assessing/assigning authority in time of unrest, Claire Valente; Abbatial authority over lay agents, Robert F. Berkhofer III; Good servants, bad lords: the abuse of authority by Jewish bailiffs in the medieval Crown of Aragon, Elka Klein; Lordship and coinage in EmpAºries, ca. 1080-ca. 1140, Stephen P. Bensch; Signum meum apposui: notaries and their signs in medieval Languedoc, Alan Friedlander. Part II Power Relations: A charter of Oliba from before his entry into religious life, Paul Freedman; Inheritance of power in the house of Guifred the Hairy: contemporary perspectives on the formation of a dynasty, Nathaniel L. Taylor; Transformations in the power of wives and widows near Montpellier, 985-1213, Elizabeth Haluska-Rausch; Protestations of ignorance in Domesday Book, Alan Cooper; Hostages and the habit of representation in 13th-century Occitania, Adam J. Kosto. Part III Discourses of Power: Abbas and Rex: power and authority in the literature of Fleury, 987-1044, Frederick S. Paxton; Power, personality-and perversity? Robert of Arbrissel (ca. 1045-1116) and his critics, Bruce L. Venarde; Lords and monks: creating an ideal of noble power in monastic chronicles, Jennifer Paxton; The lordship of jongleurs, Carol Symes; Marian monarchy in 13th-century Castile, Amy G. Remensnyder; The re-experience of medieval power: tormented voices in the haunted house of empiricism, Simon R. Doubleday. Index.