Reframing the Feudal Revolution (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought · Fourth Series, 90) by West, Charles -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Reframing the Feudal Revolution Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series Title page Copyright page Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction

The historiographical background The place of the Carolingians in the Feudal Revolution debate 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

3 Carolingian co-ordinations

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 of 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–c.1130

6 The banality of power

The rise of bannal 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: unity and diversity

The new political landscape between Marne and Moselle Upper Lotharingia and Champagne compared Architectures of power Conclusion

Conclusion

Bibliography Index Manuscripts index