Title Reframing the feudal revolution : political and social transformation between Marne and Moselle, c. 800 to c. 1100 / Charles West.

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 307 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought. Fourth series ; bk. 90
	Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought. Fourth series ; bk. 90.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction -- The historiographical background -- The place of the Carolingians in the Feudal Revolution -- Methodology -- Geography and sources -- Part I. The Parameters of Carolingian Society -- 1. Institutional integration -- Counts and the locality -- Bishops and episcopal organisation -- Royal power -- Conclusion: Structures of authority -- 2. Networks of inequality -- Aristocratic solidarities and the limits of Carolingian institutions of rule -- The logic of aristocratic dominance -- Conclusion: The dominance of lordship? -- 3. Carolingian co-ordinations -- Carolingian symbolic communication between Marne and Moselle : gifts, violence and meetings -- Characterising Carolingian symbolic communication -- From symbolic communication to economies of meaning -- Conclusion -- Part II. The long tenth-century, c. 880 to c. 1030 -- 4. The ebbing of royal power -- The distancing of royal authority -- Post-royal politics -- The causes for the retreat of royal power -- Conclusion -- 5. New hierarchies -- The transformation of the Carolingian county -- Lords and landlords in the long tenth century -- Ritual and society in the tenth century -- Conclusion: "Symbolic impoverishment" -- Part III. The exercise of authority through property rights, c. 1030-1130 -- 6. The banality of power -- The rise of banal power -- The reification of political power -- Material consequences -- Conclusion -- 7. Fiefs, Homage and the "Investiture Quarrel" -- Fiefs and dependent property -- Homage -- The "Investiture Quarrel" -- Towards a "secular liturgy"? -- Conclusion -- 8. Upper Lotharingia and Champagne around 1100 -- The new political landscape between Marne and Moselle -- Upper Lotharingia and Champagne compared -- Architectures of power -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Between the "long twelfth century" and the settlement of disputes -- Reframing the Feudal Revolution : the Carolingian legacy -- Manuscripts index.
Summary	Revisits the idea of a 'Feudal Revolution' in Europe between 800 and 1100, examining the causes of profound socio-economic change.
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Subject	Carolingians -- History.
	Carolingians.
	History.
	Social change -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
	Social change.
	Europe.
Chronological Term	To 1500
Subject	Political culture -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
	Political culture.
	Feudalism -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
	Feudalism.
	Marne River Valley (France) -- Politics and government.
	Moselle River Valley -- Politics and government.
	Marne River Valley (France) -- Social conditions.
	Moselle River Valley -- Social conditions.
	Europe -- History -- 476-1492.
Chronological Term	476-1492
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: West, Charles, 1979- Reframing the feudal revolution. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107028869 (DLC) 2012042957 (OCoLC)826300420
ISBN	9781107250277 (electronic book)
	1107250277 (electronic book)
	1139237020 (electronic book)
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	9781107247789
	1107247780
	1299707521 (e-book)
	9781299707528 (e-book)
	9781107028869
	1107028868
	9781107248618 (EBL)
	1107248612

Title Reframing the feudal revolution : political and social transformation between Marne and Moselle, c. 800 to c. 1100 / Charles West.

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