The Crisis Of The Twelfth Century

Author : Thomas N. Bisson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400874319
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of the Twelfth Century written by Thomas N. Bisson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility. Rethinking a familiar history, Thomas Bisson explores the circumstances that impelled knights, emperors, nobles, and churchmen to infuse lordship with social purpose. Bisson traces the origins of European government to a crisis of lordship and its resolution. King John of England was only the latest and most conspicuous in a gallery of bad lords who dominated the populace instead of ruling it. Yet, it was not so much the oppressed people as their tormentors who were in crisis. The Crisis of the Twelfth Century suggests what these violent people—and the outcries they provoked—contributed to the making of governments in kingdoms, principalities, and towns.

Author : Thomas N. Bisson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691169764
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of the Twelfth Century written by Thomas N. Bisson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility. Rethinking a familiar history, Thomas Bisson explores the circumstances that impelled knights, emperors, nobles, and churchmen to infuse lordship with social purpose. Bisson traces the origins of European government to a crisis of lordship and its resolution. King John of England was only the latest and most conspicuous in a gallery of bad lords who dominated the populace instead of ruling it. Yet, it was not so much the oppressed people as their tormentors who were in crisis. The Crisis of the Twelfth Century suggests what these violent people—and the outcries they provoked—contributed to the making of governments in kingdoms, principalities, and towns.

Author : Thomas N. Bisson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691137087
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of the Twelfth Century written by Thomas N. Bisson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men around castles who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility, heedless of the old public order. In The Crisis of the Twelfth Century, acclaimed historian Thomas Bisson asks what it was like to live in a Europe without government, and he asks how people experienced power, and suffered. Rethinking a familiar history as a problem of origins, he explores the circumstances that impelled knights, emperors, nobles, and churchmen to infuse lordship with social purpose." --Book Jacket.

Author : Thomas Noble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780268206123
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Transformations written by Thomas Noble and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "long twelfth century"--1050 to 1215--embraces one of the transformative moments in European history: the point, for some, at which Europe first truly became "Europe." Historians have used the terms "renaissance,""reformation,"and "revolution" to account for the dynamism of intellectual, religious, and structural renewal manifest across schools, monasteries, courts, and churches. Complicating the story, more recent historical work has highlighted manifestations of social crisis and oppression. In European Transformations: The Long Twelfth Century, nineteen accomplished medievalists examine this pivotal era under the rubric of "transformation": a time of epoch-making change both good and ill, a release of social and cultural energies that proved innovative and yet continuous with the past. Their collective reappraisal, although acknowledging insights gained from over a century of scholarship, fruitfully adjusts the questions and alters the accents. In addition to covering such standard regions as England and France, and such standard topics as feudalism and investiture, the contributors also address Scandinavia, Iberia, and Eastern Europe, women's roles in medieval society, Jewish and Muslim communities, law and politics, and the complexities of urban and rural situations. With their diverse and challenging contributions, the authors offer a new point of departure for students and scholars attempting to grasp the dynamic puzzle of twelfth-century Europe.

Author : Thomas N. Bisson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674895287
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tormented Voices written by Thomas N. Bisson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peasants of remote history rarely speak to us in their own voices, but Thomas Bisson's engagement with the records of several hundred twelfth-century rural Catalonians enables us to hear these voices. Bisson describes these peasants socially and culturally, showing how their experience figured in a wider crisis of power during the twelfth century.

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526143291
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monastic experience in twelfth-century Germany written by and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monastic experience in twelfth-century Germany provides a rare window on to monastery life in the tumultuous world of twelfth-century Swabia. From its founding in 992 through the great fire that ravaged it in 1159 and beyond, Petershausen weathered countless external attacks and internal divisions. Supra-regional clashes between emperors and popes played out at the most local level. Monks struggled against overreaching bishops. Reformers introduced new and unfamiliar customs. Tensions erupted into violence within the community. Through it all the anonymous chronicler struggled to find meaning amid conflict and forge connections to a shared past, enlivening his narrative with colorful anecdotes – sometimes amusing, sometimes disturbing. Translated into English for the first time, this fascinating text is an essential source for the lived experience of medieval monasticism.

Author : Balderich (of Florennes)
Publisher : PIMS
ISBN 13 : 9780888442949
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Warrior Bishop of the Twelfth Century written by Balderich (of Florennes) and published by PIMS. This book was released on 2008 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Balderich's Deeds of Albero offers much insight into the conflicts between church and state during the twelfth century. The Gesta Alberonis records the exploits of Albero von Montreuil (Archbishop of Trier, 1131-1152), portraying him as a daring hero doing battle on behalf of the "Liberty of the Church." This translation of the Deeds is prefaced by a historical introduction and includes maps, a select bibliography, and an index."--Jacket.

Author : Chris Wickham
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780199265862
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Courts and Conflict in Twelfth-century Tuscany written by Chris Wickham and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2003 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of disputes and their settlement in twelfth- century Tuscany is more than just legal history. Studded with colorful contemporary narratives, the book explores the mindsets of medieval Italians, and examines the legal framework which structured their society. Chris Wickham uncovers the interrelationships and collisions between different legal systems, and in doing so provides a new understanding of mentalities and power in the Italian city-state.

Author : Brian Tierney
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802067012
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of Church and State, 1050-1300 written by Brian Tierney and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Introduction: We need not be surprised, then, that in the Middle Ages also there were rulers who aspired to supreme political and temporal power. The truly exceptional thing is that in medieval times there were always at least two claimants to the role, each commanding a formidable apparatus of government, and that for century after century neither was able to dominate the other completely, so that the duality persisted, was eventually rationalized in works of political theory and ultimately built into the structure of European society. This situation profoundly influenced the development of Western constitutionalism.

Author : R.N. Swanson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719042560
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Twelfth-Century Renaissance written by R.N. Swanson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume surveys the wide range of cultural and intellectual changes in western Europe in the period 1050-1250. The Twelfth-Century Renaissance first establishes the broader context for the changes and introduces the debate on the validity of the term "Renaissance" as a label for the period. Summarizing current scholarship, without imposing a particular interpretation of the issues, the book provides an accessible introduction to a vibrant and vital period in Europe’s cultural and intellectual history.