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Preface vii
List of Illustrations xvii
Usage and Conventions xix
Abbreviations xxi
I Introduction 1
II The Age of Lordship (875-1150) 22
Old Order 25
The Quest for Lordship and Nobility 31
Constraint, Violence, and Disruption 41
Cultures of Lordship 68
III Lord-Rulership (1050-1150): The Experience of Power 84
The Papacy 87
West Mediterranean Realms 95
León and Castile 95
In Sight of the Pyreness 104
Imperial Lands 111
Bavaria 116
Lombardy 120
France 128
Anjou 129
Flanders 142
Northern Kingdoms 155
Capetian France 158
Norman England 168
IV Crises of Power (1060-1150) 182
Uneasy Maturity 183
Dynastic Anxiety 183
Anxious Fulfillments 191
The Church 197
Troubled Societies 212
The Saxon Revolt and Its Consequences (1073-1125) 213
Castled France (CA. 1100-1137) 229
Troubles on the Pilgrims' Road (1109-36) 243
Flanders: The Murder of Charles the Good (1127-28) 259
England: 'When Christ and His Saints Slept' (1135-54) 269
An Age of Tyranny? 278
V Resolution: Intrusions of Government (1150-1215) 289
Great Lordship in Prosperity and Crisis 293
'Shadows of Peace' 306
Aquitaine: Princes of Ill Repute 308
Anjou: The Tyranny of Giraud Berlai 310
A Tyrannical Bishop(?): Aldebert of Mende (1151-87) 312
The Justice of Accountability 316
The Accountability of Fidelity (1075-1150) 322
Prescriptive Accountancy 325
Towards an Accountability of Office (1085-1200) 328
A Dynamic of Fiscal Growth (ca. 1090-1160) 329
Towards a New Technique (ca. 1110-75) 336
England: Pipe Rolls and Exchequer 336
Flanders: The Grote Brief and Its Origins 339
Sicily: Pluri-Cultural Conservancy? 343
Catalonia: From Exploitation to Agency 345
Constraint, Compromise, and Office 349
Charters of Franchise: Some Lessons 350
Thresholds of Office 358
In Sight of Our Lady's Towers 362
Working with Power 369
Catalonia 371
England 378
France 398
The Roman Church 415
VI Celebration and Persuasion (1160-1225) 425
Cultures of Power 430
Sung Fidelity 431
Courtly Talk 438
Learned Moralising 445
Expertise: Two Facets 456
Knowing 457
Knowing How 462
Pacification 471
The Capuchins of Velay 475
Politicised Power 484
The Crisis of Catalonia (1173-1205) 499
The Crisis of Magna Carta (1212-15) 515
States and Estates of Power 529
The States of Troubled Realms 530
The Great Lordship of Consensus 541
Towards Estates of Associative Power 548
Towards a Parliamentary Custom of Consent 556
VII Epilogue 573
Glossary 583
Bibliography 587
Index 641
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Christopher Ishii
reviewed The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government on January 17, 2017
The Crisis of the Twelfth Century
There's a lot of info in here, but I had a hard time getting much out of it. This book has the tricky combination of being tough to read and difficult to skim.
Bisson notes that the traditional view of the 12th century is of anything pub crisis in political power. It's a key era in the rise of the nation-state, as rulers like England's Henry II and France's Philip Augustus made strides centralizing power in their realms. But Bisson notes that this is backwards reading. Looking on it's own terms, this was an era of political upheveavl and discord. At one point, Bisson hammers that point home by providing a (lengthy) list of places experiencing political strife over power. Seemingly every year something blew up in some corner of western Christendom.
Bisson's main point is that the era began with one main ideology of power: Lordship. This is when a local power had personal control over a realm and its inhabitants. Rather than primarily focus on the structure of it or the top dynasties, Bisson notes that the power of the lordship stemmed from the power of the sword. If you could enforce your will upon a people, you could be a lord. But the key was you had to enforce. So it was based upon exploitation. And it wasn't always very stable. Sure, some where born to it, but others tried to establish a lordship for themselves. The early 12th century witnessed an explosion of lords, as they gained more and more power over local areas. The rise of kings later on went directly into this - but wasn't as well addressed an ideology at first.
I started skimming more and more as the book went on, so I'm still a bit hazy on how the crisis was resolved - but I know the king's power grew. Bisson notes that we treat that as inevitable, but it wasn't, as some places like Catalonia didn't have this power centralization occur. There were financial elements of the new power structure. Our sources nowdays take things from the point of view of the nation, but that leads historians astray as from the era itself power was justified from the lords, not the nations.
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