Title: Building legitimacy : political discourses and forms of legitimacy in medieval societies
Abstract: List of Contributors .. vii Introduction .. ix Isabel Alfonso and Julio Escalona Part One: Legitimation in Context Conflict, Power and Legitimation in Francia in the Late Seventh and Eighth Centuries .. 3 Paul Fouracre A Crisis of Fidelity in c. 1000? .. 27 Stephen White Judicial Rhetoric and Political Legitimation in Medieval Leon-Castile .. 51 Isabel Alfonso Legitimation, Designation and Succession to the Throne in Fourteenth-Century England .. 89 Chris Given-Wilson The King's Face on the Territory: Royal Officers, Discourse and Legitimating Practices in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Castile .. 107 Cristina Jular Perez-Alfaro The Importance of Being Earnest: Urban Elites and the Distribution of Power in Castilian Towns in the Late Middle Ages .. 139 Jose Antonio Jara Fuente Part Two: Discourses of Political Legitimation The Strengthening of Royal Power in Castile under Alfonso XI .. 179 Carlos Estepa Family Memories: Inventing Alfonso I of Asturias .. 223 Julio Escalona An Interpreter of Law and Power in a Region of Medieval Poland: Abbot Peter of Henrykow and is Book .. 263 Piotr Gorecki Political Struggle and the Legitimation of the Toledan Primacy: The Pars Lateranii Concilii .. 291 Patrick Henriet Albertano of Brescia, Rolandino of Padua and the Rhetoric of Legitimation .. 319 Frances Andrews Index .. 341
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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