Medieval Polities and Modern Mentalities

ISBN: 9780521168632 出版年：2006 页码：505 Timothy Reuter Janet L Nelson Cambridge University Press

Editor's note Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Editor's introduction Part I. Modern Mentalities: Historiographies, Methodologies, Preconceptions: 1. Modern mentalities and medieval polities 2. Medieval: another tyrannous construct? 3. The insecurity of travel in the early and high Middle Ages: criminals, victims and their medieval and modern observers 4. Debating the 'feudal revolution' 5. Pre-Gregorian mentalities 6. Whose race, whose ethnicity? Recent medievalists' discussion of identity Part II. The Symbolic Language of Medieval Political Action: 7. Nobles and others: the social and cultural expression of power relations in the Middle Ages 8. Regemque, quem in Francia pene perdidit, in patria magnifice recepit: Ottonian ruler representation in synchronic and diachronic comparison 9. Contextualising Canossa: excommunication, penance, surrender, reconciliation 10. Velle sibi fieri in forma hac: symbolic action in the Becket dispute Part III. Political Structures and Intentions: 11. Assembly politics in western Europe from the eighth century to the twelfth 12. Sex, lies and oath-helpers: the trial of Queen Uota 13. Plunder and tribute in the Carolingian empire 14. The end of Carolingian military expansion 15. The Ottonians and Carolingian tradition 16. The making of England and Germany, 850-1050: points of comparison and difference 17. Kings, nobles, others: 'basis' and 'superstructure' in the Ottonian period 18. The 'imperial church system' of the Ottonian and Salian rulers: a reconsideration 19. Peace-breaking, feud, rebellion, resistance: violence and peace in the politics of the Salian era 20. The medieval German Sonderweg? The empire and its rulers in the high Middle Ages 21. Mandate, privilege, court judgement: techniques of rulership in the era of Frederick Barbarossa 22. All quiet except on the Western Front? The emergence of pre-modern forms of statehood in the central Middle Ages Index.