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Tables of Contents for Cultures of Power
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
List of Abbreviations
ix
Introduction
1
10
Thomas N. Bisson
Part I. Elites Old and New
Nobles and Knights in Twelfth-Century France
11
25
Theodore Evergates
Instruments of Power: The Profile and Profession of ministeriales Within German Aristocratic Society (1050--1225)
36
20
Benjamin Arnold
Castles, Barons, and Vavassors in the Vendomois and Neighboring Regions in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
56
13
Dominique Barthelemy
Women and Power
69
20
Georges Duby
Part II. Strategy, Means, Process
Proposing the Ordeal and Avoiding It: Strategy and Power in Western French Litigation, 1050--1110
89
35
Stephen D. White
England, France, and the Problem of Sacrality in Twelfth-Century Ritual
124
25
Geoffrey Koziol
Law and Power in Twelfth-Century Flanders
149
23
R. C. Van Caenegem
Papal Judges Delegate and the Making of the ``New Law'' in the Twelfth Century
172
31
Charles Duggan
Part III. Cultures of Power
Sacred Sanctions for Lordship
203
28
John Van Engen
Leon: The Iconography of a Capital
231
28
John W. Williams
Jongleur as Propagandist: The Ecclesiastical Politics of Marcabru's Poetry
259
28
Laura Kendrick
Courtliness and Social Change
287
23
C. Stephen Jaeger
Principes gentium dominantur eorum: Princely Power Between Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Twelfth-Century Exegesis
310
19
Philippe Buc
Conclusion
329
4
Thomas N. Bisson
List of Contributors
333
4
Index
337