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Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: The Use of Power -- 1 Heirs to the Apostles: Saintly Power and Ducal Authority in Hagiography of Early Normandy -- 2 The Provisions of Oxford: Assessing/Assigning Authority in Time of Unrest -- 3 Abbatial Authority over Lay Agents -- 4 Good Servants, Bad Lords: The Abuse of Authority by Jewish Bailiffs in the Medieval Crown of Aragon -- 5 Lordship and Coinage in Empúries, ca. 1080-ca. 1140 -- 6 Signum meum apposui: Notaries and their Signs in Medieval Languedoc -- Part II: Power Relations -- 7 A Charter of Oliba from before His Entry into Religious Life -- 8 Inheritance of Power in the House of Guifred the Hairy: Contemporary Perspectives on the Formation of a Dynasty -- 9 Transformations in the Powers of Wives and Widows near Montpellier, 985-1213 -- 10 Protestations of Ignorance in Domesday Book -- 11 Hostages and the Habit of Representation in Thirteenth-Century Occitania -- Part III: Discourses of Power -- 12 Abbas and Rex: Power and Authority in the Literature of Fleury, 987-1044 -- 13 Power, Personality-and Perversity? Robert of Arbrissel (ca. 1045-1116) and His Critics -- 14 Lords and Monks: Creating an Ideal of Noble Power in Monastic Chronicles -- 15 The Lordship of Jongleurs -- 16 Marian Monarchy in Thirteenth-Century Castile -- 17 The Re-Experience of Medieval Power: Tormented Voices in the Haunted House of Empiricism -- Index

Politics and power in high medieval Europe, c. 1000-1200 -- Foundational texts -- Becoming king -- Conferring kingship -- Duties, norms and process -- Designating an heir -- Unanimity and probity -- Choosing a king -- Enthroning the king -- Beyond enthronement.

Students in twelfth-century Paris held slanging matches, branding the English drunkards, the Germans madmen and the French as arrogant. On crusade, army recruits from different ethnic backgrounds taunted each other's military skills. Men producing ethnography in monasteries and at court drafted derogatory descriptions of peoples dwelling in territories under colonisation, questioning their work ethic, social organisation, religious devotion and humanness. Monks listed and ruminated on the alleged traits of Jews, Saracens, Greeks, Saxons and Britons and their acceptance or rejection of Christianity.In this radical new approach to representations of nationhood in medieval western Europe, the author argues that ethnic stereotypes were constructed and wielded rhetorically to justify property claims, flaunt military strength and assert moral and cultural ascendance over others. The gendered images of ethnicity in circulation reflect a negotiation over self-representations of discipline, rationality and strength, juxtaposed with the alleged chaos and weakness of racialised others. Interpreting nationhood through a religious lens, monks and schoolmen explained it as scientifically informed by environmental medicine, an ancient theory that held that location and climate influenced the physical and mental traits of peoples. Drawing on lists of ethnic character traits, school textbooks, medical treatises, proverbs, poetry and chronicles, this book shows that ethnic stereotypes served as rhetorical tools of power, crafting relationships within communities and towards others.

Students in twelfth-century Paris held slanging matches, branding the English drunkards, the Germans madmen and the French as arrogant. On crusade, army recruits from different ethnic backgrounds taunted each other's military skills. Men producing ethnography in monasteries and at court drafted derogatory descriptions of peoples dwelling in territories under colonisation, questioning their work ethic, social organisation, religious devotion and humanness. Monks listed and ruminated on the alleged traits of Jews, Saracens, Greeks, Saxons and Britons and their acceptance or rejection of Christianity. In this radical new approach to representations of nationhood in medieval western Europe, the author argues that ethnic stereotypes were constructed and wielded rhetorically to justify property claims, flaunt military strength and assert moral and cultural ascendance over others. The gendered images of ethnicity in circulation reflect a negotiation over self-representations of discipline, rationality and strength, juxtaposed with the alleged chaos and weakness of racialised others. Interpreting nationhood through a religious lens, monks and schoolmen explained it as scientifically informed by environmental medicine, an ancient theory that held that location and climate influenced the physical and mental traits of peoples. Drawing on lists of ethnic character traits, school textbooks, medical treatises, proverbs, poetry and chronicles, this book shows that ethnic stereotypes served as rhetorical tools of power, crafting relationships within communities and towards others

This is the first comprehensive study of the origins and early uses of Russian writing, including analysis of a wide range of writings from a variety of perspectives. The impressive scholarship and idiosyncratic wit of this volume commend it to students and specialists in Russian history and literature alike