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Author:

West, Charles, 1979- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2013003971

Title:

Reframing the feudal revolution : political and social transformation between Marne and Moselle, c. 800 to c. 1100 / Charles West.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xiii, 307 pages : map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Carolingians.
Feudalism--Europe.
France--Politics and government--To 987.
France--Politics and government--987-1328.
Europe--Social conditions--To 1492.
France--Social conditions--To 987.
Social change--Europe--History--To 1500.
Political culture--Europe--History--To 1500.
Tenth century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-300) and indexes.

Contents:

Introduction -- The historiographical background -- The place of the Carolingians in the Feudal Revolution -- Methodology -- Geography and sources -- Part I, The parameters of Carolingian society: 1. Institutional integration ; 2. Networks of inequality ; 3. Carolingian co-ordinations -- Part II, The long tenth-century, c. 880 to c. 1030: 4. The ebbing of royal power ; 5. New hierarchies -- Part III, The exercise of authority through property rights, c. 1030-1130: 6. The banality of power ; 7. Fiefs, homage and the "Investiture Quarrel" ; 8. Upper Lotharingia and Champagne around 1100 : unity and diversity -- Conclusion: Between the "long twelfth century" and the "Settlement of disputes" ; Reframing the Feudal Revolution : the Carolingian legacy.

Series:

Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought. Fourth series ; book 90

ISBN:

1107028868
9781107028869

OCLC:

(OCoLC)826300420

LCCN:

2012042957

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)