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Center and periphery : studies on power in the Medieval World in honor of William Chester Jordan / edited by Katherine L. Jansen, G. Geltner, Anne E. Lester.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Later medieval Europe ; v. 2.
- Later medieval Europe
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Power (Social sciences).
- History.
- Europe--History--476-1492.
- Europe.
- Power (Social sciences)--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Europe--Social conditions--To 1492.
- Social conditions.
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Middle Ages.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
- Summary:
- William Chester Jordan's scholarship has demonstrated the complexity of negotiating power at both the center and margins of medieval society, taking us into the inner chambers of medieval power structures where kings, churchmen and countries dwell and to the margins of society inhabited by disenfranchised peoples such as Jews, women and the poor. Center and Periphery: Studies on Power in the Medieval World in Honor of William Chester Jordan, edited by Katherine L. Jansen, G. Geltner and Anne E. Lester, honors Professor Jordan by taking up these themes and expanding them from France into Spain, Italy, the Lowlands, and the Mediterranean. The volume highlights how Jordan's work has inspired and influenced a generation of medievalists working in North America and Europe today. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Royal power and minorities.
- Christian love, Jewish "privacy," and medieval kingship / David Nirenberg
- The Castilian monarchy and the Jews (eleventh to thirteenth centuries) / Maya Soifer Irish
- Royal power and ritual murder: notes on the expulsion of the Jews from the royal domain of France, 1182 / E.M. Rose
- The intimacy of exception: the diagnosis of Samuel Abenmenasse / Hussein Fancy
- The politics of peacemaking.
- Can the church be desperate, warriors be pacifist, and commoners ridiculously optimistic? On the historian's imagination and the peace of God / Richard Landes
- Peacemaking, performance, and power in thirteenth-century San Gimignano / Katherine L. Jansen
- Captivity and diplomacy in the late medieval crown of Aragon / Jarbel Rodriguez
- Religious institutions and society.
- The economic power of a hospital in thirteenth-century Provins / Adam J. Davis
- "In some way even more than before": approaches to understanding St. Louis of Anjou, Franciscan bishop of Toulouse / Holly J. Grieco
- "In order to keep the memory": miracle cults as sources of authority in the crown of Aragon / Michelle Garceau
- Patrolling normative borders after the black death: the Bishop of Lucca's criminal court / G. Geltner
- Crusading, memory, and identity.
- Warrior or saint? Joinville, Louis IX's character, and the challenge of the crusade / Jonathan Elukin
- Confessor king, martyr saint: praying to Saint Maurice at Senlis / Anne E. Lester
- Men of France? boundary crossing in Constantinople in the 1240s / Erica Gilles
- Victory by desire: crusade and martyrdom in the fourteenth century / Christopher MacEvitt
- Rethinking issues of medieval law and history.
- Custom's two bodies / Emily Kadens
- A cautionary note / Mark Gregory Pegg.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-300) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9004243593
- 9789004243590
- OCLC:
- 823387439
- Publisher Number:
- 99960488674
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