Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One: The Authority of the Past
7. Mother, Father, King: Dhuoda and Carolingian Patriarchy 23
8. Stages of Political Development: Twelfth-Century Ireland as Ninth-Century England 40
9. Context and Process in the Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris: The Latin Historian’s Art in the Iberian High Middle Ages 56
10. Part Two: Change and Growth
11. The Testing of Einhard’s Religious Authority 75
12. Love and the Divorce of Lothar II 91
13. Ius fori and Ius poli: The Juridification of Classical Canon Law 116
14. Part Three: Renewal and Reform
15. Spiritual Emptiness and Ascetic Exile in the Middle Ages 135
16. Upright Posture and Human Dignity According to Bernard of Clairvaux 159
17. “A Little More than the Angels”: Anthropology and the Imitatio Christi in a Catalán Sermon by Vicent Ferrer on Saint James the Greater 179
18. Part Four: Rejection of Tradition
19. The Contessa di Castiglione: Patriot or Prostitute? 211
20. Glenn W. Olsen: A Bibliography 224
21. Contributors 247
22. Tabula Gratulatoria 251
23. Index of Scriptural Citations 252
24. General Index 254