Courts and Conflict in Twelfth-century Tuscany
Courts and Conflict in Twelfth-century Tuscany

Author: Chris Wickham

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 9780199265862

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This study of disputes and their settlement in twelfth- century Tuscany is more than just legal history. Studded with colorful contemporary narratives, the book explores the mindsets of medieval Italians, and examines the legal framework which structured their society. Chris Wickham uncovers the interrelationships and collisions between different legal systems, and in doing so provides a new understanding of mentalities and power in the Italian city-state.

The Crisis of the Twelfth Century
The Crisis of the Twelfth Century

Author: Thomas N. Bisson

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-09-22

Total Pages: 710

ISBN-13: 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.

Pope Alexander III (1159–81)
Pope Alexander III (1159–81)

Author: Anne J. Duggan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 1317078365

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Alexander III was one of the most important popes of the Middle Ages and his papacy (1159-81) marked a significant watershed in the history of the Western Church and society. This book provides a long overdue reassessment of his papacy and his achievements, bringing together thirteen essays which review existing scholarship and present the latest research and new perspectives. Individual chapters cover topics such as Alexander's many contributions to the law of the Church, which had a major impact upon Western society, notably on marriage, his relations with Byzantium, and the extension of papal authority at the peripheries of the West, in Spain, Northern Europe and the Holy Land. But dominant are the major clashes between secular and spiritual authority: the confrontation between Henry II of England and Thomas Becket after which Alexander eventually secured the king's co-operation and the pope's eighteen-year conflict with the German emperor, Frederick I. Both the papacy and the Western Church emerged as stronger institutions from this struggle, largely owing to Alexander's leadership and resilience: he truly mastered the art of survival.

The Languages of Gift in the Early Middle Ages
The Languages of Gift in the Early Middle Ages

Author: Wendy Davies

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-09-02

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0521515173

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This book is a collection of original essays on gift in the early Middle Ages, from Anglo-Saxon England to the Islamic world. Focusing on the languages of gift, the essays reveal how early medieval people visualized and thought about gift, and how they distinguished between the giving of gifts and other forms of social, economic, political and religious exchange. The same team, largely, that produced the widely cited The Settlement of Disputes in Early Medieval Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1986) has again collaborated in a collective effort that harnesses individual expertise in order to draw from the sources a deeper understanding of the early Middle Ages by looking at real cases, that is at real people, whether peasant or emperor. The culture of medieval gift has often been treated as archaic and exotic; in this book, by contrast, we see people going about their lives in individual, down-to-earth and sometimes familiar ways.

Unpredictability and Presence
Unpredictability and Presence

Author: Hans Jacob Orning

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008-05-31

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9047443284

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This book – inspired by historians like Fredric Cheyette, Stephen White and William Miller – applies a legal anthropological framework to Norwegian history. At the same time, it focuses on what happens when pre-state conflict patterns encounters a more stable royal power in the high middle ages. The author demonstrates how in the 12th and 13th century the king under strong clerical influence is depicted as just and omnipresent. However, a detailed survey of the king’s conflicts shows that he to a substantial degree based his dominion on unpredictability and presence. The results presented in this book will certainly be discussed, but few will disagree that it formulates the question of state formation in a new and challenging way. In addition it clearly demonstrates the relevance of studying Scandinavian history as part of European history.

Order in the Court: Medieval Procedural Treatises in Translation
Order in the Court: Medieval Procedural Treatises in Translation

Author: Bruce Brasington

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-03-17

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 9004315322

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In Order in the Court, Brasington translates and comments upon the earliest medieval treatises on ecclesiastical legal procedure. Beginning with the eleventh-century “Marturi Case,” the first citation of the Digest in court since late antiquity and the jurist Bulgarus’ letter to Haimeric, the papal chancellor, we witness the evolution of Roman-law procedure in Italy. The study then focusses on Anglo-Norman works, all from the second half of the twelfth century. The De edendo, the Practica legum of Bishop William of Longchamp, and the Ordo Bambergensis blend Roman and canon law to guide the judge, advocate, and litigant in court. These reveal the study and practice of the learned law during the turbulent “Age of Becket” and its aftermath.

Law in Common
Law in Common

Author: Tom Johnson

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0198785615

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Law in Common draws on a large body of unpublished archival material from local archives and libraries across the country, to show how ordinary people in the later Middle Ages - such as peasants, craftsmen, and townspeople - used law in their everyday lives, developing our understanding of the operation of late-medieval society and politics.

Making Early Medieval Societies
Making Early Medieval Societies

Author: Kate Cooper

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-01-21

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1107138809

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Examines the fundamental question of what held the societies of the post-Roman world together.

The Aristocracy in England and Tuscany, 1000-1250
The Aristocracy in England and Tuscany, 1000-1250

Author: Peter R. Coss

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 0198846967

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This volume examines the aristocracy in Tuscany and in England in the years 1000-1250, offering a new way of studying English aristocracy in this period by tracing Italian aristocratic history, and then employing the same historiographic tools within English history.

The Clash of Legitimacies
The Clash of Legitimacies

Author: Andrea Gamberini

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0198824319

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Historians have long understood the period 1100 to 1500 to be the key phase in the genesis of the modern state. In this innovative work, Andrea Gamberini examines the case of late medieval Lombardy to show that the advent of the state did not extinguish the traditional values and principles of political cohabitation that had long been in place.