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"The crusading movements provoked a vast and diverse mass of reactions in the medieval West. While Latin sources provide official versions of its preaching, organisation and events, the vernacular lyrics of the troubadours and trouvères present a secular perspective, through a cornucopia of on-the-spot responses in France, Occitania, Italy, the Iberian Peninsula, Cyprus, Syria and Greece. This book constitutes the first comprehensive, modern analysis of Old French and Occitan lyric texts relating to the crusades. It brings out their full range, from propaganda for the crusades, to criticisms of crusading and crusaders through vituperation, humour or cynicism, to their use as a pretext for political or personal wrangling. It also shows how they shed light on many aspects of medieval life, among them chivalric and courtly values (often in tension with clerical ones), regional politics, sexual behaviour, personal experiences of crusading and captivity, the complex interaction of Christians, Greeks and Muslims, and bafflement in the face of failure and God's imponderable purposes"--Back cover image

"Two Medieval Toll Registers from Tarascon presents an edition, translation, and discussion of two vernacular toll registers from fourteenth and fifteenth-century Provence. These two registers are a valuable new source for the economic, linguistic, and transportation history of medieval France, offering a window onto the commercial life of Tarascon, a fortified town on the east bank of the Rhône between Avignon and Arles. William D. Paden discusses the developing fiscal policy of the counts of Provence, for whom the tolls were collected, and the practice and vocabulary of medieval toll-keeping. An afterword considers the toll registers in relation to the poetry of troubadours, arguing that the realism of the registers and the idealism of troubadour poetry overlapped in the world of medieval Tarascon. "--

Cover -- Contents -- Series Note -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 - Historical Evolutionary Approach in the Sociology of G.S. Ghurye -- 2 - G.S. Ghurye on Culture and Nation-Building -- 3 - The Hindu Nationalist Sociology of G.S. Ghurye -- 4 - Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and the Nation: Situating G.S. Ghurye -- 5 - Radha Kamal Mukerjee -A Note -- 6 - Radhakamal Mukerjee and His Contemporaries: Founding Fathers of Sociology in India -- 7 - Radhakamal Mukerjee and the Quest for an Indian Sociology -- 8 - Lucknow School of Economics and Sociology and Its Relevance To-Day: Some Reflections -- 9 - Dialectic of Tradition and Modernity in the Sociology of D.P. Mukerji -- 10 - D.P. Mukerji 1894-1961: A Centenary Tribute -- 11 - D.P. Mukerji and the Middle Class in India -- 12 - On Srinivas's 'Sociology' -- 13 - The Sociology of Hinduism: Reading 'Backwards' from Srinivas to Weber -- 14 - M.N. Srinivas, Max Weber, and Functionalism -- 15 - Disjunctions between Field, Method and Concept: An Appraisal of M.N. Srinivas -- 16 - On M.N. Srinivas and Indian Sociology: The Challeng eof Understanding Indian Society-Critique, Generosity and Transformations -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Appendix of Sources.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Case for Inclusiveness -- Chapter 2: Primacy of Action -- Chapter 3: Economic Action -- Chapter 4: Methodological Outposts -- Chapter 5: Departure from Convention -- Chapter 6: In Practice -- Chapter 7: In Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.