Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Elites Old and New
7. I. Nobles and Knights in Twelfth-Century France 11
8. 2. Instruments of Power: The Profile and Profession of Ministeriales Within German Aristocratic Society, 1050-1225 36
9. 3. Castles, Barons, and Vavassors in the Vendomois and Neighboring Regions in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries 56
10. 4. Women and Power 69
11. Part II. Strategy, Means, Process
12. 5. Proposing the Ordeal and Avoiding It: Strategy and Power in Western French Litigation, 1050-1110 89
13. 6. England, France, and the Problem of Sacrality in Twelfth -Century Ritual 124
14. 7. Law and Power in Twelfth-Century Flanders 149
15. 8. Papal Judges Delegate and the Making of the "New Law" in the Twelfth Century 172
16. Part III. Cultures of Power
17. 9. Sacred Sanctions for Lordship 203
18. 10. León: The Iconography of the Capital 231
19. 11. Jongleur as Propagandist: The Ecclesiastical Politics of Marcabru's Poetry 259
20. 12. Courtliness and Social Change 287
21. 13. Principes gentium dominantur eorum: Princely Power Between Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Twelfth-Century Exegesis 310
22. Conclusion 329
23. Contributors 333
24. Index 337
25. Backmatter 349