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Aristocracy
Author_Thomas N. Bisson
Bailiff
Baronage
Benefice
Castellan
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Clergy
Count of Barcelona
Count of Toulouse
Courtier
Decree
Distraint
Domesday Book
Ecclesiastical jurisdiction
Edict
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Exchequer
Feudalism
Fief
Flattery
Fulk (archbishop of Reims)
Geoffrey (archbishop of York)
Henry II of England
Hildebert
Historian
Ideology
Injunction
Institution
Investiture Controversy
Ivo of Chartres
John of Salisbury
Justiciar
Legislation
Louis VI
Louis VII
Magnate
Majesty
Monarchy
Narrative
Nobility
Notary
Occitania
Orderic Vitalis
Parchment
Peasant
Peter the Venerable
Precedent
Prelate
Presumption
Principality
Reims
Rhetoric
Seneschal
Soissons
Southern France
Statute
Suger
Superiority (short story)
Tallage
Tax
Terrassa
Thomas Becket
Tithe
Toulouse
Vassal
Warfare
Wealth
William II of England
William the Conqueror
Writing
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- ISBN 9780691169767
- Weight: 765g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 22 Sep 2015
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Thomas N. Bisson is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History Emeritus at Harvard University.
