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Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Ideas of Friendship, Love, and Brotherhood in Classical Philosophy -- Friendship and Social Formation in the High Middle Ages -- Friendship in an Oath-Taking Society – A Ritual Perspective -- Friendship and Lordship in Twelfth-Century Scandinavia -- Epilogue -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- General Index.

"In discussions relating to their role during the Middle Ages, women are typically assumed to only have been "pawns in a political game dominated by men", or to have primarily acted as intermediaries of power. In this book, however, the varying expressions of power are studied by changing the focus from a political and economic exercise of power controlled by men, to an approach based on interaction and communication between the sexes. In this volume, gender is instead interpreted as a total social phenomenon comprising all spheres of medieval society. This approach provides new opportunities to investigate how power operated on different levels within a societal structure. Thus, power is neither seen as emanating from a centre nor as dominated by only one sex. Instead, it is regarded as an all-embracing societal web, woven through threads of mutual dependence between men and women.

In this book, scholars belonging to various disciplines, such as history, history of arts and literary history, discuss how cooperation between the sexes found expression in culture, judicial spheres and social organisation. The contributions do not only consider the Nordic countries, but also how gender constructions were affected by, and transformed through, the influence of contemporary cultural, juridical and ideological currents in Europe. - Vanliga uppfattningar i diskussioner om kvinnornas roll under medeltiden är att de utgjorde "brickor i männens politiska spel" eller att de i första hand verkade som förmedlare av makt. I denna antologi studeras dock maktens olika uttrycksformer genom att fokus förflyttas från politisk och ekonomisk maktutövning kontrollerad av män till ett interaktionistiskt synsätt baserat på samspelet och kommunikationen mellan könen. Genom att se på genus som ett totalt socialt fenomen omfattande det medeltida samhällets alla sfärer öppnas möjligheter att undersöka hur makten verkade på olika nivåer inom samhällsstrukturen. Makten betraktas därmed varken som utgående från ett centrum eller helt dominerad av ett kön. I boken diskuterar forskare tillhörande olika discipliner såsom historia, konstvetenskap och litteraturvetenskap hur samverkan mellan könen tog sig uttryck inom kulturen, rättssamhället och den sociala organisationen. Bidragen behandlar inte bara Norden utan även hur könskonstruktioner påverkades och förändrades genom inflytande från samtida kulturella, juridiska och ideologiska strömningar i Europa.
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Preliminary Material -- General Introduction /Kim Esmark and Hans Jacob Orning -- Introduction to Part One /Hans Jacob Orning -- Conflict and Social (dis)order in Norway, c. 1030–1160 /Hans Jacob Orning -- Kingship, Women and Politics in Morkinskinna /Auður Magnúsdóttir -- How to Legitimate Rebellion and Condemn Usurpation of the Crown: Discourses of Fidelity and Treason in the Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus /Lars Hermanson -- Introduction to Part Two /Helle Vogt and Kim Esmark -- The Power to Judge: Jurisdiction in Property Conflicts in Thirteenth-Century Denmark /Helle Vogt -- Disputing Property in Zealand: The Records of the Sorø Donation Book /Kim Esmark -- Gifts and Society in Fourteenth Century Sweden /Catharina Andersson -- The Field of Property Devolution in Norway During the Late Middle Ages: Inheritance Settlements, Marriage Contracts and Legal Disputes /Lars Ivar Hansen -- The Feelings in the Feud: The Emotional Turn in the Study of Medieval Vengeance /Stephen D. White -- The Rules of Conflict Among the Warrior Aristocracy of the High Middle Ages /Gerd Althoff -- Legal History and the History of Disputes /John Hudson -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Names -- Index of Places.