Seigneurial Transformation - Power Structures Political Communication in Countryside of Central

Alessio Fiore discusses the transformation of the fabric of power in the kingdom of Italy in the period between the late eleventh century and the early twelfth century: a period in which the structures of local power and the instruments of local political communications were dramatically reshaped.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Part I: New frameworks of local power


• 1: Civil Wars: collapse and rebuilding of political structures


• 2: Imperial Power: crisis and transformation


• 3: Territorial Lordship: rise and spread of a model of power


• 4: Inside the Lordship: reshaping local societies


• 5: Collective Powers: political actions of urban and rural autonomous communities


• Part II: A Culture of Power. The Dominatus Loci between practices and discourses


• 6: Royal Legitimation and its Crisis


• 7: Fidelity: a pervasive language


• 8: Pacts: the foundations of a new legitimacy


• 9: Custom: rituals of memory


• 10: Violence: a pragmatic language


• Conclusions: a seigneurial revolution (and more)

About the author

Alessio Fiore is a lecturer in medieval history at the University of Turin. His research and main publications are focused on medieval history, the form of local power in Italian countryside between 1000 and 1400, and the economy of high medieval Italy.

Summary

Alessio Fiore discusses the transformation of the fabric of power in the kingdom of Italy in the period between the late eleventh century and the early twelfth century: a period in which the structures of local power and the instruments of local political communications were dramatically reshaped.

Product details

• Authors: Alessio Fiore, Alessio (Lecturer of Medieval History Fiore
• Assisted by: Sergio Knipe (Translation), Knipe Sergio (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2020
• EAN: 9780198825746
• ISBN: 978-0-19-882574-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval