Cultures of Power

Preface.
List of Abbreviations

Introduction
-Thomas N. Bisson

PART I. ELITES OLD AND NEW
1.Nobles and Knights in Twelfth-Century France
-Theodore Evergates
2. Instruments of Power: The Profile and Profession of ministeriales Within German Aristocratic Society (1050-1225)
-Benjamin Arnold
3. Castles, Barons, and Vavassors in the Vendomois and Neighboring Regions in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
-Dominique BarthÉlmy
4. Women and Power
-Georges Duby
5. Proposing the Ordeal and Avoiding It: Strategy and Power in Western French Litigation, 1050-1110
-Stephen D. White

PART II. STRATEGY, MEANS, PROCESS
6. England, France, and the Problem of Sacrality in Twelfth-Century Ritual
-Geoffrey Koziol
7. Law and Power in Twelfth-Century Flanders
-R. C. Van Caenegem
8. Papal Judges Delegate and the Making of the "New Law" in the Twelfth Century
-Charles Duggan

PART III. CULTURES OF POWER
9. Sacred Sanctions for Lordship
-John Ven Engen
10. LeÓn: The Iconography of a Capital
-John W. Williams
11. Jongleur as Propagandist: The Ecclesiastical Politics of Marcabru's Poetry
-Laura Kendrick
12. Courtliness and Social Change
-C. Stephen Jaeger
13. Principes gentium dominantur eorum: Princely Power Between Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Twelfth-Century Exegesis
-Philippe Buc

Conclusion
-Thomas N. Bisson

List of Contributors
Index