European Transformations: The Long Twelfth Century

578 Pages·2012·4.013 MB·English

by  Thomas F. X. Noble, John Van Engen (eds.)

EUROPEAN TRANSFORMATIONS
NOTRE DAME CONFERENCES IN MEDIEVAL STuDIES

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
European transformations : the long twelfth century / edited by Thomas F.X.
Noble and John Van Engen.
p. cm. — (Notre Dame conferences in medieval studies)
Papers from a conference hosted by the Medieval Institute of the university of
Notre Dame, October 26–28, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-268-03610-2 (paper : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-268-03610-1 (paper : alk. paper)
1. Europe—History—476–1492—Congresses. 2. Social change—Europe—
History—To 1500—Congresses. 3. Europe—Intellectual life—Congresses.
4. Europe—Social conditions—To 1492—Congresses. 5. Europe—Religion—
Congresses. 6. Church history—Middle Ages, 60–1500—Congresses.
I. Noble, Thomas F. X. II. Van Engen, John H. III. university of Notre
Dame. Medieval Institute.
D201.8.E87 2011
940.1'82—dc23
2011048878
∞ The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and
durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the
Council on Library Resources.
Contents
List of Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Thomas F. X. Noble
ONE
The Twelfth Century: Reading, Reason, and Revolt
in a World of Custom 17
John Van Engen
TwO
A Historian of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance
and the Transformation of English Society, 1066–ca. 1200 45
John Gillingham
THREE
Chivalric One-upmanship in France, ca. 1100 75
Dominique Barthélemy
FOUR
Reconquest, Renaissance, and the Histories of Iberia,
ca. 1000–1200 93
Adam J. Kosto
FIVE
Italy in the Long Twelfth Century: Ecclesiastical Reform and
the Legitimization of a New Political Order, 1059 –1183 117
Maureen C. Miller
v
vi Contents
SIX
Sutri 1046—Canossa 1077—Rome 1111: Problems
of Communication and the Perception of Neighbors 132
Hanna Vollrath
SEVEN
The Europeanization of Europe: The Case of Scandinavia 171
Sverre Bagge
EIGHT
Ambiguous Beginnings: East Central Europe in the Making,
950–1200 194
Piotr Górecki
NINE
Lords, Markets, and Communities: The urban Revolution
of the Twelfth Century 229
David Nicholas
TEN
Peasants, the Seigneurial Regime, and Serfdom
in the Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries 259
Paul Freedman
ELEVEN
Clothing, Iron, and Timber: The Growth of Christian Anxiety
about Islam in the Long Twelfth Century 279
Olivia Remie Constable
TwELVE
Continuity and Change in Twelfth-Century
Christian-Jewish Relations 314
Anna Sapir Abulafia
THIRTEEN
The Legal Revolution of the Twelfth Century 338
Anders Winroth
FOURTEEN
Liminalities: Literate Women in the Long Twelfth Century 354
Barbara Newman
Contents vii
FIFTEEN
Philosophy and Theology 403
John Marenbon
SIXTEEN
Semiotic Anthropology: The Twelfth-Century Approach 426
Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak
SEVENTEEN
Three-in-One: Making God in Twelfth-Century Liturgy,
Theology, and Devotion 468
Rachel Fulton Brown
EIGHTEEN
John of Salisbury, a Philosopher of the Long Eleventh Century 499
C. Stephen Jaeger
List of Contributors 521
Index 524