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Contents List of Contributors viii List of Abbreviations ix Introduction: The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe, 950-1350 Robert F. Berkhofer III, Alan Cooper, Adam J. Kosto 1 PART I: THE USE OF POWER 1 Heirs to the Apostles: Saintly Power and Ducal Authority in Hagiography of Early Normandy Samantha Kahn Herrick 7 2 The Provisions of Oxford: Assessing/Assigning Authority in Time of Unrest Claire Valente 21 3 Abbatial Authority over Lay Agents Robert F. Berkhofer III 39 4 Good Servants, Bad Lords: The Abuse of Authority by Jewish Bailiffs in the Medieval Crown of Aragon Elka Klein 55 5 Lordship and Coinage in Empúries, ca. 1080-ca. 1140 Stephen P. Bensch 69 6 Signum meum apposui: Notaries and Their Signs in Medieval Languedoc Alan Friedlander 89 PART II: POWER RELATIONS 7 A Charter of Oliba from before His Entry into Religious Life Paul Freedman 115 8 Inheritance of Power in the House of Guifred the Hairy: Contemporary Perspectives on the Formation of a Dynasty Nathaniel L. Taylor 123 9 Transformations in the Power of Wives and Widows near Montpellier, 985-1213 Elizabeth Haluska-Rausch 147 10 Protestations of Ignorance in Domesday Book Alan Cooper 163 11 Hostages and the Habit of Representation in Thirteenth-Century Occitania Adam J. Kosto 177 PART III: DISCOURSES OF POWER 12 Abbas and Rex: Power and Authority in the Literature of Fleury, 987-1044 Frederick S. Paxton 191 13 Power, Personality--and Perversity? Robert of Arbrissel (ca. 1045- 1116) and His Critics Bruce L. Venarde 207 14 Lords and Monks: Creating an Ideal of Noble Power in Monastic Chronicles Jennifer Paxton 221 15 The Lordship of Jongleurs Carol Symes 231 16 Marian Monarchy in Thirteenth-Century Castile Amy G. Remensnyder 247 17 The Re-Experience of Medieval Power: Tormented Voices in the Haunted House of Empiricism Simon R. Doubleday 265 Index 281
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Power (Social sciences) -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
Middle Ages -- History.