Center and periphery : studies on power in the Middle Ages in honor of William Chester Jordan / edited by Katherine L. Jansen, G. Geltner, Anne E. Lester.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Geltner, G. (Guy), 1974-

Jansen, Katherine Ludwig, 1957-

Jordan, William Chester, 1948-

Lester, Anne E., 1974-

Series:

Later medieval Europe ; 11.

Later medieval Europe ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Medieval.

Middle Ages.

Power (Social sciences)--Europe--History--To 1500.

Power (Social sciences).

Europe--History--476-1492.

Europe.

Europe--Social conditions--To 1492.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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 courtiers dwell 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 inspired and influenced a generation of medievalists working in North America and Europe today. Contributors are John W. Baldwin, Adam J. Davis, Jonathan Elukin, Hussein Fancy, Michelle Garceau, G. Geltner, Erica Gilles, Holly J. Grieco, Maya Soifer Irish, Katherine L. Jansen, Emily Kadens, Richard Landes, Jacques Le Goff, Anne E. Lester, Christopher MacEvitt, David Nirenberg, Mark Gregory Pegg , Jarbel Rodriguez, E.M. Rose and Teofilo Ruiz.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Katherine L. Jansen , G. Geltner and Anne E. Lester

Introduction / Katherine L. Jansen , G. Geltner and Anne E. Lester

Historiographical Introduction / John W. Baldwin

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 Abenmenassé / Hussein Fancy

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

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

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 1240's / Erica Gilles

Victory by Desire: Crusade and Martyrdom in the Fourteenth Century / Christopher MacEvitt

Custom’s Two Bodies / Emily Kadens

A Cautionary Note / Mark Gregory Pegg

Afterword – William Chester Jordan: A Life of Learning / Teofilo F. Ruiz

William Chester Jordan: A Bibliography / Katherine L. Jansen , G. Geltner and Anne E. Lester

General Bibliography / Katherine L. Jansen , G. Geltner and Anne E. Lester

Index / Katherine L. Jansen , G. Geltner and Anne E. Lester.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-24903-6

OCLC:

836401285