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Title Building legitimacy : political discourses and forms of legitimacy in medieval societies / edited by Isabel Alfonso, Hugh Kennedy, and Julio Escalona.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 359 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series Medieval Mediterranean, 0928-5520 ; . 53
Medieval Mediterranean . 53. 0928-5520
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Conflict, power, and legitimation in Francia in the late seventh and eighth centuries / Paul Fouracre -- A crisis of fidelity in c. 1000? / Stephen White -- Judicial rhetoric and political legitimation in medieval León-Castile / Isabel Alfonso -- Legitimation, designation and succession to the throne in fourteenth-century England / Chris Given-Wilson -- The king's face on the territory : royal officers, discourse and legitimating practices in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Castile / Cristina Jular Pérez-Alfaro -- The importance of being earnest : urban elites and the distribution of power in Castilian towns in the late Middle Ages / José Antonio Jara Fuente -- The strengthening of royal power in Castile under Alfonso XI / Carlos Estepa -- Family memories : inventing Alfonso I of Asturias / Julie Escalona -- An interpreter of law and power in a region of medieval Poland : Abbot Peter of Henryków and his book / Piotr Górecki -- Political struggle and the legitimation of the Toledan primacy : the Pars Lateranii concilii / Patrick Henriet -- Albertano of Brescia, Rolandino of Padua and the rhetoric of legitimation / Frances Andrews.
Summary This volume presents a selection of papers exploring the ways by which medieval powers sought to legitimize themselves, the political discourses through which this was effected and a wide range of related problems.
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Subject Legitimacy of governments -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
Legitimacy of governments.
Europe.
History.
Europe -- Kings and rulers -- Succession.
Kings and rulers.
Law, Medieval.
Law, Medieval.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Europe -- Kings and rulers.
Indexed Term Samfundsvidenskab Politologi.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Alfonso Antón, Isabel.
Kennedy, Hugh (Hugh N.)
Escalona, Julio.
Other Form: Print version: Building legitimacy. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004 9004133054 (DLC) 2003052249 (OCoLC)52895868
ISBN 1423714113 (electronic book)
9781423714118 (electronic book)
9047402685
9789047402688
9004133054 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9789004133051 (cloth ; acid-free paper)