The crisis of the twelfth century : power, lordship, and the origins of European government / Thomas N. Bisson.

9781400874316 (electronic bk.)
1400874319 (electronic bk.)
9780691137087 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0691137080 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780691147956 (pbk.)
0691147957 (pbk.)

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]

©2009

English

In English.

1 online resource (xxviii, 677 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps

10.1515/9781400874316 doi

D201.8 .B57 2015eb

(OCoLC)914434128

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. -- Publisher

New paperback edition, 2015

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version: Bisson, Thomas N. Crisis of the Twelfth Century : Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2015

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