Reframing the Feudal Revolution: Political and Social Transformation Between Marne and Moselle, c.800–c.1100

Reframing the Feudal Revolution......Page 2
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
Copyright page......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Abbreviations......Page 11
The historiographical background......Page 18
The place of the Carolingians in the Feudal Revolution debate......Page 21
Methodology......Page 25
Geography and sources......Page 27
Part I The parameters of Carolingian society......Page 39
1 Institutional integration......Page 41
Counts and the locality......Page 42
Bishops and episcopal organisation......Page 49
Royal power......Page 57
Conclusion: structures of authority......Page 63
2 Networks of Inequality......Page 84
Aristocratic solidarities and the limits of Carolingian institutions of rule......Page 85
The logic of aristocratic dominance......Page 95
Conclusion: the dominance of lordship?......Page 104
3 Carolingian co-ordinations......Page 127
Carolingian symbolic communication between Marne and Moselle: gifts, violence and meetings......Page 128
Characterising Carolingian symbolic communication......Page 134
From symbolic communication to economies of meaning......Page 142
Conclusion......Page 149
Part II The long tenth century, c.880 to c.1030......Page 163
The distancing of royal authority......Page 165
Post-royal politics......Page 175
The causes of the retreat of royal power......Page 184
Conclusion......Page 189
The transformation of the Carolingian county......Page 204
Lords and landlords in the long tenth century......Page 211
Ritual and society in the tenth century......Page 219
Conclusion: ‘symbolic impoverishment’......Page 228
Part III The exercise of authority through property rights, c.1030–c.1130......Page 245
6 The banality of power......Page 246
The rise of bannal power......Page 247
The reification of political power......Page 255
Material consequences......Page 260
Conclusion......Page 265
7 Fiefs, Homage and the ‘Investiture Quarrel’......Page 282
Fiefs and dependent property......Page 283
Homage......Page 288
The ‘Investiture Quarrel’......Page 293
Towards a ‘secular liturgy’?......Page 299
Conclusion......Page 302
The new political landscape between Marne and Moselle......Page 323
Upper Lotharingia and Champagne compared......Page 326
Architectures of power......Page 333
Conclusion......Page 344
Between the ‘long twelfth century’ and the ‘Settlement of Disputes’......Page 360
Reframing the Feudal Revolution: the Carolingian legacy......Page 364
Bibliography......Page 371
Index......Page 433
Manuscripts index......Page 449