Reframing the Feudal Revolution: Political and Social Transformation Between Marne and Moselle, c.800–c.1100

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Reframing the Feudal Revolution......Page 2 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series......Page 3 Title page......Page 4 Copyright page......Page 5 Contents......Page 7 Acknowledgements......Page 9 Abbreviations......Page 11 The historiographical background......Page 18 The place of the Carolingians in the Feudal Revolution debate......Page 21 Methodology......Page 25 Geography and sources......Page 27 Part I The parameters of Carolingian society......Page 39 1 Institutional integration......Page 41 Counts and the locality......Page 42 Bishops and episcopal organisation......Page 49 Royal power......Page 57 Conclusion: structures of authority......Page 63 2 Networks of Inequality......Page 84 Aristocratic solidarities and the limits of Carolingian institutions of rule......Page 85 The logic of aristocratic dominance......Page 95 Conclusion: the dominance of lordship?......Page 104 3 Carolingian co-ordinations......Page 127 Carolingian symbolic communication between Marne and Moselle: gifts, violence and meetings......Page 128 Characterising Carolingian symbolic communication......Page 134 From symbolic communication to economies of meaning......Page 142 Conclusion......Page 149 Part II The long tenth century, c.880 to c.1030......Page 163 The distancing of royal authority......Page 165 Post-royal politics......Page 175 The causes of the retreat of royal power......Page 184 Conclusion......Page 189 The transformation of the Carolingian county......Page 204 Lords and landlords in the long tenth century......Page 211 Ritual and society in the tenth century......Page 219 Conclusion: ‘symbolic impoverishment’......Page 228 Part III The exercise of authority through property rights, c.1030–c.1130......Page 245 6 The banality of power......Page 246 The rise of bannal power......Page 247 The reification of political power......Page 255 Material consequences......Page 260 Conclusion......Page 265 7 Fiefs, Homage and the ‘Investiture Quarrel’......Page 282 Fiefs and dependent property......Page 283 Homage......Page 288 The ‘Investiture Quarrel’......Page 293 Towards a ‘secular liturgy’?......Page 299 Conclusion......Page 302 The new political landscape between Marne and Moselle......Page 323 Upper Lotharingia and Champagne compared......Page 326 Architectures of power......Page 333 Conclusion......Page 344 Between the ‘long twelfth century’ and the ‘Settlement of Disputes’......Page 360 Reframing the Feudal Revolution: the Carolingian legacy......Page 364 Bibliography......Page 371 Index......Page 433 Manuscripts index......Page 449