Politics and Power in High Medieval Europe,<i>c</i>. 1000–1200
What are we talking about when talk high medieval Latin Europe? That is the key question underpinning first chapter. It draws attention to shared political structures and common cultural framework within which men women of central Middle Ages engaged with practice ideal kingship. In sketches both resources means governance at disposal rulers ruled, intellectual toolkit available them in thinking role purpose king’s office. The chapter furthermore highlights what sets period apart from Carolingian era later Ages, explores how people viewed their part world as a coherent whole, related but distinctive Islamic Byzantium.
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