The Crisis of the Twelfth Century

Bisson, Thomas N.

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“…In a violent age, as in the 12th century in particular (Bisson, 2009), both defense and intimidation were involved. Contemporary accounts of actual sieges (Warner, 2004) were quick to report on the advantages of watery defense, as in the siege of Oxford in 1141 or of Cricklade in 1142 in the reign of King Stephen.…”

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Medieval environmental impacts and feedbacks: The lowland floodplains of England and Wales

Lewin

2010

Geoarchaeology

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Because of their varying channel styles (braided, meandering, and anastomosing) medieval lowland floodplains in England and Wales provided varying opportunities for defense, settlement, river crossing, and resource exploitation. In turn, these activities altered the character of channels and floodplains, with medieval and later development obscuring the former variety of floodplains themselves. The changing nature of river floodplains is reviewed using archaeological, documentary, and geomorphological evidence. Anastomosing channels and floodplain wetlands have now all but disappeared but were formerly of considerable significance; also discussed are interactions involving flooding, fording, bridging, modifications to channels and their dimensions, and those arising from accelerated soil erosion-most of which peaked in the medieval period when floodplains were significantly transformed. Deliberately or inadvertently, dynamic floodplain landforms were interactively involved with human development during a critical time period in a totality of ways not previously fully identified.

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Medieval environmental impacts and feedbacks: The lowland floodplains of England and Wales

Lewin

2010

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“…conception of power'; unlike his predecessors Alfons and Pere, he was in a stronger position to act on it. 263 The assembly at Tarragona in 1235 delivered a typical statement signifying what this peace meant for lords: 'peasants and villagers, whether of royal, ecclesiastical, or other religious lands, allodial or enfeoffed knights in war and peace, are under this peace and truce [. .…”

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Lords, settlers and shifting frontiers in medieval Catalonia

Barton

2010

Journal of Medieval History

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“…42 Bisson, in contrast, emphasized the repeated and systematic violations of public order of the eleventh century. 43 Looking at the counts of Anjou, Bisson saw men who were "ambitious and aggressive" and exercised "coercive might." The sources of Angevin history, he maintained, reveal some of the greatest violence of the age.…”

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“…The sources of Angevin history, he maintained, reveal some of the greatest violence of the age. 44 The institutions by which these men ruled were tenuous in the extreme, "consisting of the vassalic alliances of a singularly aggressive lordship." 45 Only in the middle of the eleventh century did Geoffrey Martel become the "first of his line to aim at repressing violent customs as a matter of policy," only to have the two nephews who succeeded him become "egregious violators of the peace."…”

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“…44 The institutions by which these men ruled were tenuous in the extreme, "consisting of the vassalic alliances of a singularly aggressive lordship." 45 Only in the middle of the eleventh century did Geoffrey Martel become the "first of his line to aim at repressing violent customs as a matter of policy," only to have the two nephews who succeeded him become "egregious violators of the peace." 46 Whereas Bachrach described a society held together by family and commitment to public institutions, Bisson presented a world in which personal ties were superior to any abstract claims to public order.…”

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The Counts of Anjou in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries: Understanding Power and Authority in the High Middle Ages

Dachowski

2015

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The county of Anjou has a central place in French and English historiography as one of the main territorial principalities that emerged in the tenth and eleventh centuries. The power and authority of Angevin counts in the tenth and eleventh centuries make the county central to debates over public and private authority -violence, coercion, and cooperation -and the continuity or discontinuity of Carolingian institutions in the early Capetian era. Its rich primary source record has allowed numerous studies to address these questions, but more work needs to be done making use of the methodology of emerging fields within medieval studies and with a focus on how the lesser nobility functioned in Anjou.

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The Crisis of the Twelfth Century

Cited by 130 publications

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Medieval environmental impacts and feedbacks: The lowland floodplains of England and Wales

Medieval environmental impacts and feedbacks: The lowland floodplains of England and Wales

Lords, settlers and shifting frontiers in medieval Catalonia

The Counts of Anjou in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries: Understanding Power and Authority in the High Middle Ages

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