[PDF] The Crisis Of The Twelfth Century eBook

Author : Thomas N. Bisson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 46,36 MB
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0691169764

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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.

Author : Thomas N. Bisson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 12,9 MB
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1400874319

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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.

Author : Thomas N. Bisson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 23,35 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691137087

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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 around castles who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility, heedless of the old public order. In The Crisis of the Twelfth Century, acclaimed historian Thomas Bisson asks what it was like to live in a Europe without government, and he asks how people experienced power, and suffered. Rethinking a familiar history as a problem of origins, he explores the circumstances that impelled knights, emperors, nobles, and churchmen to infuse lordship with social purpose." --Book Jacket.

Author : Thomas F. X. Noble
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,35 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780268036102

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Medievalists explore geographical regions and themes to expose the best current thinking about what was and what was not distinctive about the twelfth century.

Author : Thomas N. Bisson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674895287

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Peasants of remote history rarely speak to us in their own voices, but Thomas Bisson's engagement with the records of several hundred twelfth-century rural Catalonians enables us to hear these voices. Bisson describes these peasants socially and culturally, showing how their experience figured in a wider crisis of power during the twelfth century.

Author : Thomas N. Bisson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 2013-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0812200764

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The authors of Cultures of Power proffer diverse perspectives on the prehistory of government in Northern France, Spain, Germany, the Low Countries, and England. Political, social, ecclesiastical, and cultural history are brought to bear on topics such as aristocracies, women, rituals, commemoration, and manifestations of power through literary, legal, and scriptural means.

Author : R.N. Swanson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 11,47 MB
Release : 1999-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719042560

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This volume surveys the wide range of cultural and intellectual changes in western Europe in the period 1050-1250. The Twelfth-Century Renaissance first establishes the broader context for the changes and introduces the debate on the validity of the term "Renaissance" as a label for the period. Summarizing current scholarship, without imposing a particular interpretation of the issues, the book provides an accessible introduction to a vibrant and vital period in Europe’s cultural and intellectual history.

Author : John Cotts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1137296089

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Between 1095 and 1229, Western Europe confronted a series of alternative cultural possibilities that would fundamentally transform its social structures, its intellectual life, and its very identity. It was a period of difficult decisions and anxiety rather than a triumphant 'renaissance'. In this fresh reassessment of the twelfth century, John D. Cotts: - Shows how new social, economic and religious options challenged Europeans to re-imagine their place in the world - Provides an overview of political life and detailed examples of the original thought and religious enthusiasm of the time - Presents the Crusades as the century's defining movement. Ideal for students and scholars alike, this is an essential overview of a pivotal era in medieval history that arguably paved the way for a united Europe.

Author : Gerd Tellenbach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 1993-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521437110

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This comprehensive survey of the history of the Church in Western Europe, as institution and spiritual body.

Author : Ken Follett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 18,34 MB
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101543558

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Ken Follett’s magnificent historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson’s White House. . . . A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with a German spy. . . . And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution. From the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty, Fall of Giants takes us into the inextricably entangled fates of five families—and into a century that we thought we knew, but that now will never seem the same again. . . .