The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe, 950-1350
Department
Medieval Studies
Document Type
Book
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Description
Taking their inspiration from the work of Thomas N. Bisson, to whom the book is dedicated, the contributors to this volume explore the experience of power in medieval Europe: the experience of those who held power, those who helped them wield it, and those who felt its effects. The seventeen essays in the collection, which range geographically from England in the north to Castile in the south, and chronologically from the tenth century to the fourteenth, address a series of specific topics in institutional, social, religious, cultural, and intellectual history. Taken together, they present three distinct ways of discussing power in a medieval historical context: uses of power, relations of power, and discourses of power. The collection thus examines not only the operational and social aspects of power, but also power as a contested category within the medieval world. The Experience of Power suggests new and fruitful ways of understanding and studying power in the Middle Ages.
Call number in WMU's library
HN49.P6 B47 2005
ISBN
0754651061
Publication Date
2005
Publisher
Ashgate
City
Aldershot
Disciplines
Medieval History
Citation for published book
Berkhofer, Robert F., Alan Cooper, and Adam J. Kosto. The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe : 950-1350 / Robert F. Berkhofer III, Alan Cooper, and Adam J. Kosto. 2005. Print.
Recommended Citation
Berkhofer, Robert F. III; Cooper, Alan; and Kosto, Adam J., "The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe, 950-1350" (2005). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 640.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/640