Thomas N. Bisson, The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government. Princeton, N.J., and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009. Pp. xxix, 677 plus color frontispiece and 8 black-and-white plates; 1 black-and-white figure and 5 maps. $39.50.
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