1. Introduction 2. Fear, interest and honor 3. The spirit and its expression 4. The ancient world 5. Medieval Europe 6. From Sun King to Revolution 7. Imperialism and World War I 8. World War II 9. Hitler to Bush and beyond 10. General findings and conclusions.

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A Cultural Theory of International Relations

Social status and legal privilege in the Roman Empire

Starting in the mid-thirteenth century, kings, bishops, and local rulers throughout western Europe repeatedly ordered the banishment of foreigners who were lending at interest. The expulsion of these foreigners, mostly Christians hailing from northern Italy, took place against a backdrop of rising anxieties over the social and spiritual implications of a rapidly expanding credit economy. Moreover, from 1274 onward, such expulsions were backed by the weight of canon law, as the church hierarchy—inspired by secular precedents—commanded rulers everywhere to expel foreign moneylenders from their lands. Standing threats of expulsion were duly entered into statute-books from Salzburg to northern Spain. This dissertation explores the emergence and spread of the idea of expelling foreign usurers across the intellectual and legal landscape of late medieval Europe. Building on a wide array of evidence gathered from seventy archives and libraries, the dissertation examines how the idea of expulsion expressed itself in practice, how its targets came to be defined, and how the resulting expulsion orders were enforced—or not. It shows how administrative procedures, intellectual categories and linguistic habits circulated and evolved to shape the banishment not only of foreign usurers, but of other targets as well, most notably the Jews. By reconstructing these expulsions and their accompanying legal and theological debates, this dissertation weaves together broad themes ranging from the circulation of merchants and manuscripts to conflicting overlaps in political jurisdictions and commercial practices; from the resilience of Biblical exegesis to the flexibility of legal hermeneutics; and from shifts in political

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Banishing Usury: The Expulsion of Foreign Moneylenders in Medieval Europe, 1200-1450

Blending fine-grained case studies with overarching theory, this book seeks both to integrate Southeast Asia into world history and to rethink much of Eurasia's premodern past. It argues that Southeast Asia, Europe, Japan, China, and South Asia all embodied idiosyncratic versions of a Eurasian-wide pattern whereby local isolates cohered to form ever larger, more stable, more complex political and cultural systems. With accelerating force, climatic, commercial, and military stimuli joined to produce patterns of linear-cum-cyclic construction that became remarkably synchronized even between regions that had no contact with one another. Yet this study also distinguishes between two zones of integration, one where indigenous groups remained in control and a second where agency gravitated to external conquest elites. Here, then, is a fundamentally original view of Eurasia during a 1,000-year period that speaks to both historians of individual regions and those interested in global trends.

Strange parallels : Southeast Asia in global context, c 800-1830

Introduction Jonathan Riley-Smith and David Luscombe 1. The rural economy and demographic growth Robert Fossier 2. Towns and the growth of trade Derek Keene 3. Government and community, 1024-1204 Susan Reynolds 4. The development of law Peter Landau 5. Knightly society Jean Flori 6. War, peace and the Christian order, 1024-1204 Ernst-Dieter Hehl 7. The structure of the church, 1024-1073 H. E. J. Cowdrey 8. Reform and the church, 1073-1122 I. S. Robinson 9. Religious communities, 1024-1215 Giles Constable 10. The institutions of the church, 1073-1216 I. S. Robinson 11. Thought and learning D. E. Luscombe 12. Religion and laity (including popular devotions and heresy) Bernard Hamilton 13. The crusades, 1095-1198 Jonathan Riley-Smith 14. The eastern churches Jean Richard 15. Muslim Spain and Portugal: al-Andalus and its neighbours, 1025-1198 Hugh Kennedy 16. The Jews in Europe and the Mediterranean basin in the eleventh and twelfth centuries Robert Chazan 17. Literature (Latin and vernacular) Jan Ziolkowski 18. Romanesque and gothic: architecture and the arts Patrick Kidson List of primary sources Bibliography of secondary sources arranged by chapter Index of manuscripts.

The New Cambridge Medieval History

Part 1 The man: the prince the Capetian. Part 2 The dominions: the French lands Provence the Regno the rest of Italy the Mediterranean world the Sicilian vespers an empire? Part 3 Policies: the papacy the church the economy the army and navy. Part 4 Court life and culture: family and familia chivalry and display literature, art and architecture learning personal piety.

Charles I of Anjou: Power, Kingship and State-Making in Thirteenth-Century Europe

Introduction to Second Edition 1. 843-888 2. Sources 888-987 3. Formative trends in tenth-century political life 4. The Principalities 888-987 5. Aristocratic life 888-897 6. Sources 987-1108 7. Formative trends in eleventh-century political life 8. The Principalities 987-1108 9. Aristocratic life 987-1108 10. Sources 1108-1180 11. Formative trends in twelfth-century political life 12. The Principalities 1108-1180 13. Aristocratic life 1108-1180 14. Conclusion Genealogical Tables

France in the making, 843-1180

When the court chaplain Wipo produced his Gesta Chuonradi in 1046 as an instruction in kingship for the young Henry III, he prefaced it with an indictment of contemporary writers’ laziness in failing to chronicle the deeds of their great men, although convenient models had been provided by pagan authors and Old Testament historians. The latter, in describing David’s single combats, Solomon’s counsel, Gideon’s magnanimity, and the battles of the Maccabees, had created a remarkable series of biographies illustrative of the different ways in which a man could serve the common weal. Their achievement deserved imitation. The main drift of Wipo’s argument is unfortunately too broad a theme for discussion here. What concerns us is simply that for him the Maccabees were the archetypes of heroic warriors, and that he expected his audience to be as familiar with their exploits as he was himself.

The Maccabees as Exemplars in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries

The Means of Naming. A Social and Cultural History of Personal Naming in Western Europe Stephen Wilson

Introduction Abbreviations The Late Roman Legacy in Western Europe c. 1000 The Means of Detention in the High Middle Ages Castellans, Jailers and Guards The Keeping of Captives in Private Houses Coercive Captivity Custodial and Punitive Captivity Conditions of Captivity Release from Prison Ecclesiastical Imprisonment Imprisonment and the Medieval Imagination Conclusion Further Reading Index

Jean Dunbabin

Papers

Charles I of Anjou: Power, Kingship and State-Making in Thirteenth-Century Europe

France in the making, 843-1180

The Maccabees as Exemplars in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries

The Means of Naming. A Social and Cultural History of Personal Naming in Western Europe Stephen Wilson

Captivity and Imprisonment in Medieval Europe, 1000-1300