Communications and Power in Medieval Europe

The Gregorian Revolution and Beyond

Karl Leyser

• Publisher: Hambledon Continuum
• Edition: 1
• Year: 1994
• Topic: History
• Print ISBN:
  9781852851132
• Subtopic: World History
• eBook ISBN:
  9780826430281
• Index: History

In the first half of this collection of Karl Leyser's studies on the high middle ages, two themes are especially explored. The first is the European aristocratic world of the early eleventh century; the second is the fragmentation of this world in the course of the revolution set in motion by Gregory VII. The essays in the second half stress the importance of communications for the new forms of warfare and government developing in the twelfth century.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Karl Leyser the Historian
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• 1 On the Eve of the First European Revolution
• 2 The Crisis of Medieval Germany
• 3 From Saxon Freedoms to the Freedom of Saxony: The Crisis of the Eleventh Century
• 4 Gregory VII and the Saxons
• 5 Money and Supplies on the First Crusade
• 6 The Anglo-Norman Succession, 1120–25
• 7 Frederick Barbarossa and the Hohenstaufen Polity
• 8 Frederick Barbarossa: Court and Country
• 9 The Angevin Kings and the Holy Man
• 10 A Recent View of the German College of Electors
• 11 Warfare in the Western European Middle Ages: The Moral Debate
• Index