Social Stress, Social Strain, and the Inquisitors of Medieval Languedoc
James Given
even the building of these nation-states entailed great costs and much violent conflict. In a very fundamental sense, then, history Europe is regions. At no time was this more true than in centuries after disintegration that first effort at European imperial reconstruction, Carolingian Empire. period structures social, economic, political power all fractured disintegrated. became little congeries regions, united only cultural level by Roman Catholicism. Regions are therefore central concerns for medieval historian. Despite difficulty defining regionalism distinguishing one region from another, fact study