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Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility. Rethinking a familiar history, Thomas Bisson explores the circumstances that impelled knights, emperors, nobles, and churchmen to infuse lordship with social purpose.Bisson traces the origins of European government to a crisis of lordship and its resolution. King John of England was only the latest and most conspicuous in a gallery of bad lords who dominated the populace instead of ruling it. Yet, it was not so much the oppressed people as their tormentors who were in crisis. The Crisis of the Twelfth Century suggests what these violent people-and the outcries they provoked-contributed to the making of governments in kingdoms, principalities, and towns.

Twelfth century --- Power (Social sciences) --- Douzième siècle --- Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) --- Europe --- Politics and government --- History --- Politique et gouvernement --- Histoire --- Douzième siècle --- Pouvoir (sciences sociales) --- Classes supérieures --- Aristocratie --- Noblesse --- Power (Social sciences). --- History of Europe --- anno 1100-1199 --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Classes supérieures

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Peasantry - Spain - Catalonia - Social conditions. --- Power (Social sciences) - Spain - Catalonia. --- Catalonia (Spain) - Civilization.

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Taking their inspiration from the work of Thomas N. Bisson, to whom the book is dedicated, the contributors to this volume explore the experience of power in medieval Europe: the experience of those who held power, those who helped them wield it, and those who felt its effects. The seventeen essays in the collection, which range geographically from England in the north to Castile in the south, and chronologically from the tenth century to the fourteenth, address a series of specific topics in institutional, social, religious, cultural, and intellectual history. Taken together, they present three distinct ways of discussing power in a medieval historical context: uses of power, relations of power, and discourses of power. The collection thus examines not only the operational and social aspects of power, but also power as a contested category within the medieval world. The Experience of Power suggests new and fruitful ways of understanding and studying power in the Middle Ages.

Power (Social sciences) --- Middle Ages --- Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) --- Moyen Age --- History --- History. --- Histoire --- Europe --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Middle Ages. --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Dark Ages --- History, Medieval --- Medieval history --- Medieval period --- World history, Medieval --- World history --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medievalism --- Renaissance --- To 1500 --- Acqui 2006 --- Social conditions