Status Updates From The Crisis of the Twelfth C...

Chapter VI - Celebration and Persuasion - It's really not until after about 1225 that we can see the steady practice of government, as opposed to lordship, which continues to be the norm even in the late twelfth century, although some isolated developments are visible.

Part V - Resolution: Intrusions of Government (1150-1215) - The crisis begins to be resolved as the great lords start to establish feudal monarchies and holding their agents accountable.

Part IV - Crises of Power - Everywhere in Europe we find writers decrying the 'tyranny' of would-be lords, and even attempts to counter a lord's tyranny with other forms of tyranny (or bad lordship).

Part III - Lord-Rulership (1050-1150): The Experience of Power - His argument in this chapter is that the experience of power c.1100, despite efforts to maintain or hearken back to the public order of the Carolingian world, was of affective lordship--even kings were reduced to acting in response to personal please rather than issuing proactive legislation.

Part II - The Age of Lordship (875-1150) - Lordship expanded widely in this period, and every small-time would-be lord seized whatever power and dominion he could, through whatever means necessary, and tried to act as the great lords of an earlier age had, in an effort to claim nobility.

Part I - Introduction - Power and lordship does not equate to 'government.'