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Absentee Authority across Medieval Europe
Edited by Frédérique Lachaud, Edited by Michael A Penman, Contributions by Michael A Penman, Contributions by Frédérique Lachaud, Contributions by Bruno Dumézil, Contributions by Laurent Hablot, Contributions by Robert Houghton, Contributions by Olivier de Laborderie, Contributions by Tom Horler-Underwood, Contributions by James Bothwell
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An interdisciplinary approach to a crucial part of the systems of medieval authority and governance. In the medieval world, what happened when a figure of recognised authority was absent? What terminology, principles and solutions of proxy authority were developed and adopted? Did these solutions differ and change over time depending on whether the absence was short or long and caused by issues of incapacity, minority, disputed succession, geography or elective absenteeism? Did the models of proxy authority adopted by ruling dynasties and large institutions influence the proxy choices of lesser authority? The circumstances and consequences of absentee authority, a major aspect of the systems of medieval power, are the focus of this volume. Ranging across the realms of medieval Europe (but with a focus upon the British Isles and France), its essays embrace a wide variety of experience - royal, parliamentary, conciliar, magnatial, military, ecclesiastical (papal to parochial), burghal, household, minoror major, male or female, exiled, captive or infirm - and explore not merely political developments, but the dynastic, diplomatic, financial, ideological, religious and cultural ramifications of such episodes. Frédérique Lachaud is Professor of medieval history at the Université de Lorraine, France; Michael Penman is Senior Lecturer in history at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Contributors: James Bothwell Michelle Bubenicek, Léonard Dauphant , Bruno Dumézil, Laurent Hablot, Torsten Hiltmann, Tom Horler-Underwood, Robert Houghton, Olivier de Laborderie, Frédérique Lachaud, Hans Jacob Orning, Michael Penman. Norman Reid
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Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published date | 17 Nov 2017
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 266
Dimensions | 234 x 156 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 586g
ISBN | 978-1-7832-7252-5
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BISAC | history / medieval
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