Assembly politics in western Europe from the eighth century to the twelfth
Timothy Reuter
The 'assembly politics' is deliberately ambiguous: it refers both to politics conducted through assemblies and at assemblies. Assemblies were the places for promulgating legislation or sub-legislative instructions. decline in importance of across most Western Europe post-Carolingian era meant aspect assembly functionality. From eighth twelfth centuries, European rulers met face infrequently, though when they did so this was normally Rather, defined membership their exclusive club by repeated participation exchanges: brides, gifts, ambassadors. 'Polities' 'politics' are merely neutral signifiers past human activities which one would probably apply similar terms own societies. It clear that Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Norman polities, showing many similarities with continental analogues, subtly different.
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