Building Legitimacy: Political Discourses and Forms of Legitimation in Medieval Societies (The Medieval Mediterranean, 53)

xxiii, 359 pages : illustrations : 24 cm. Contents: Conflict, power, and legitimation in Francia in the late seventh and eighth centuries / Paul Fouracre -- A crisis of fidelity in c. 1000? / Stephen White -- Judicial rhetoric and political legitimation in medieval León-Castile / Isabel Alfonso -- Legitimation, designation and succession to the throne in fourteenth-century England / Chris Given-Wilson -- The king's face on the territory : royal officers, discourse and legitimating practices in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Castile / Cristina Jular Pérez-Alfaro -- The importance of being earnest : urban elites and the distribution of power in Castilian towns in the late Middle Ages / José Antonio Jara Fuente -- The strengthening of royal power in Castile under Alfonso XI / Carlos Estepa -- Family memories : inventing Alfonso I of Asturias / Julie Escalona -- An interpreter of law and power in a region of medieval Poland : Abbot Peter of Henryków and his book / Piotr Górecki -- Political struggle and the legitimation of the Toledan primacy : the Pars Lateranii concilii / Patrick Henriet -- Albertano of Brescia, Rolandino of Padua and the rhetoric of legitimation / Frances Andrews. …