The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe, 950–1350

ISBN 10: 0754651061 / ISBN 13: 9780754651062

Published by Routledge, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe, 950?1350
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754651061
• ISBN 13: 9780754651062
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Taking their inspiration from the work of Thomas N. Bisson, to whom the book is dedicated, the contributors to this volume explore the experience of power in medieval Europe: the experience of those who held power, those who helped them wield it, and those who felt its effects. The seventeen essays in the collection, which range geographically from England in the north to Castile in the south, and chronologically from the tenth century to the fourteenth, address a series of specific topics in institutional, social, religious, cultural, and intellectual history. Taken together, they present three distinct ways of discussing power in a medieval historical context: uses of power, relations of power, and discourses of power. The collection thus examines not only the operational and social aspects of power, but also power as a contested category within the medieval world. The Experience of Power suggests new and fruitful ways of understanding and studying power in the Middle Ages.

About the Author

Robert F. Berkhofer III is Assistant Professor of History at Western Michigan University, USA. Alan Cooper is Assistant Professor of History at Colgate University, USA. Adam J. Kosto is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University, USA.