Center and Periphery: Studies on Power in the Medieval World in Honor of William Chester Jordan (Later Medieval Europe, 11)

William Chester Jordan's scholarship has demonstrated the complexity of negotiating power at both the center and margins of medieval society, taking us into the inner chambers of medieval power structures where kings, churchmen and courtiers dwell to the margins of society inhabited by disenfranchised peoples such as Jews, women and the poor. Center and Periphery: Studies on Power in the Medieval World in Honor of William Chester Jordan, edited by Katherine L. Jansen, G. Geltner and Anne E. Lester, honors Professor Jordan by taking up these themes and expanding them from France into Spain, Italy, the Lowlands, and the Mediterranean. The volume highlights how Jordan's work inspired and influenced a generation of medievalists working in North America and Europe today.Contributors are John W. Baldwin, Adam J. Davis, Jonathan Elukin, Hussein Fancy, Michelle Garceau, G. Geltner, Erica Gilles, Holly J. Grieco, Maya Soifer Irish, Katherine L. Jansen, Emily Kadens, Richard Landes, Jacques Le Goff, Anne E. Lester, Christopher MacEvitt, David Nirenberg, Mark Gregory Pegg, Jarbel Rodriguez, E.M. Rose and Teofilo Ruiz. Acknowledgements xi List of Illustrations xiii Abbreviations xv Foreword by Jacques Le Goff xvii Map xxi List of Contributors xxi Introduction / Katherine L. Jansen, G. Geltner, and Anne E. Lester 1 Historiographical Introduction / John W. Baldwin 13 PART ONE. ROYAL POWER AND MINORITIES 1. Christian Love, Jewish 'Privacy', and Medieval Kingship / David Nirenberg 25 2. The Castilian Monarchy and the Jews (Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries) / Maya Soifer Irish 39 3. Royal Power and Ritual Murder: Notes on the Expulsion of the Jews from the Royal Domain of France, 1182 / E. M. Rose 51 4. The Intimacy of Exception: The Diagnosis of Samuel Abenmenassé / Hussein Fancy 65 PART TWO. THE POLITICS OF PEACEMAKING 5. Can the Church be Desperate, Warriors be Pacifist, and Commoners Ridiculously Optimistic? On the Historian’s Imagination and the Peace of God / Richard Landes 79 6. Peacemaking, Performance, and Power in Thirteenth-Century San Gimignano / Katherine L. Jansen 93 7. Captivity and Diplomacy in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon / Jarbel Rodriguez 107 PART THREE. RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETY 8. The Economic Power of a Hospital in Thirteenth-Century Provins / Adam J. Davis 121 9. 'In Some Way Even More than Before': Approaches to Understanding St. Louis of Anjou, Franciscan Bishop of Toulouse / Holly J. Grieco 135 10. 'In Order to Keep the Memory': Miracle Cults as Sources of Authority in the Crown of Aragon / Michelle Garceau 157 11. Patrolling Normative Borders after the Black Death: The Bishop of Lucca’s Criminal Court / G. Geltner 169 PART FOUR. CRUSADING, MEMORY, AND IDENTITY 12. Warrior or Saint? Joinville, Louis IX’s Character, and the Challenge of the Crusade / Jonathan Elukin 183 13. Confessor King, Martyr Saint: Praying to Saint Maurice at Senlis / Anne E. Lester 195 14. Men of France? Boundary Crossing in Constantinople in the 1240s / Erica Gilles 211 15. Victory by Desire: Crusade and Martyrdom in the Fourteenth Century / Christopher MacEvitt 223 PART FIVE. RETHINKING ISSUES OF MEDIEVAL LAW AND HISTORY 16. Custom’s Two Bodies / Emily Kadens 239 17. A Cautionary Note / Mark Gregory Pegg 249 Afterword – William Chester Jordan: A Life of Learning / Teofilo F. Ruiz 263 William Chester Jordan: A Bibliography 273 General Bibliography 279 Index 301 "William Chester Jordan’s scholarship has demonstrated the complexity of negotiating power at both the center and margins of medieval society, taking us into the inner chambers of medieval power structures where kings, churchmen and courtiers dwell and to the margins of society inhabited by disenfranchised peoples such as Jews, women and the poor. Center and Periphery: Studies on Power in the Medieval World in Honor of William Chester Jordan, edited by Katherine L. Jansen, G. Geltner and Anne E. Lester, honors Professor Jordan by taking up these themes and expanding them from France into Spain, Italy, the Lowlands, and the Mediterranean"-- Center and Periphery honors Willliam Chester Jordan on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The essays by his former doctoral students examine the complexity of negotiating power at the center and margins of society in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean.