Medieval Polities and Modern Mentalities
Timothy Reuter|Janet L. Nelson
Editor's note Acknowledgements List of abbreviations introduction Part I. Modern Mentalities: Historiographies, Methodologies, Preconceptions: 1. mentalities and medieval polities 2. Medieval: another tyrannous construct? 3. The insecurity travel in the early high Middle Ages: criminals, victims their modern observers 4. Debating 'feudal revolution' 5. Pre-Gregorian 6. Whose race, whose ethnicity? Recent medievalists' discussion identity II. Symbolic Language Medieval Political Action: 7. Nobles others: social cultural expression power relations Ages 8. Regemque, quem Francia pene perdidit, patria magnifice recepit: Ottonian ruler representation synchronic diachronic comparison 9. Contextualising Canossa: excommunication, penance, surrender, reconciliation 10. Velle sibi fieri forma hac: symbolic action Becket dispute III. Structures Intentions: 11. Assembly politics western Europe from eighth century to twelfth 12. Sex, lies oath-helpers: trial Queen Uota 13. Plunder tribute Carolingian empire 14. end military expansion 15. Ottonians tradition 16. making England Germany, 850-1050: points difference 17. Kings, nobles, 'basis' 'superstructure' period 18. 'imperial church system' Salian rulers: a reconsideration 19. Peace-breaking, feud, rebellion, resistance: violence peace era 20. German Sonderweg? its rulers 21. Mandate, privilege, court judgement: techniques rulership Frederick Barbarossa 22. All quiet except on Western Front? emergence pre-modern forms statehood central Index.
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