Absentee Authority across Medieval Europe

ROBERT HOUGHTON is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Winchester, UK.

• Introduction: Absentee Authority across Medieval Europe - Frédérique Lachaud and Michael A PenmanIncarnating Authority, Exercising Authority: The Figure of the King in the Merovingian Era - Bruno DumézilUbi armae ibi princeps: Medieval Emblematics as the Real Presence of the Prince - Laurent HablotWhile the Bishop's Away... Absentee Bishops of Parma during the Investiture Conflict - Robert HoughtonAn Inconceivable Absence: Usurpers and Illegitimate Rulers in the Genealogical Rolls of the Kings of England, from the late thirteenth to the early fifteenth centuries - Olivier de LaborderieLocal Loyalty and Absentee Authority in Thirteenth-Century Normandy: the Evidence of the Querimoniae Normannorum (1247) - Tom Horler-UnderwoodRepresentation and Authority in Thirteenth-Century England and Gascony - Frédérique LachaudInternal Exiles: Exclusion from the Fourteenth-Century English Court and Kingdom - J. S. Bothwell'Si grant charté a Paris. par defaulte du roy': Governmental Practice and the Customary Geography of the Absence - Léonard DauphantWas the Couple a Palliative to the Absence of the Prince? The Political Role and Influence of Margaret of Flanders during the Reign of Philip the Bold, Duke and Count of Burgundy (1384-1404) - Michelle BubenicekGuardian - Lieutenant - Governor: Absentee Monarchy and Proxy Power in Scotland's Long Fourteenth Century - Norman ReidGuardian - Lieutenant - Governor: Absentee Monarchy and Proxy Power in Scotland's Long Fourteenth Century - Michael A PenmanAbsentee Authority in Late Medieval Iceland, as Viewed from the Literary Sources - Hans Jacob OrningRepresentatives of Kings and 'Kings' as Representatives: Authority and its Representation in Professional Groups in Late Medieval and Early Modern France - The Example of the King of Minstrels and of the King of Mercers - Torsten Hiltmann

The editors' decision to allow their contributors to interpret 'absentee authority' as they chose is vindicated by the stimulating content of these essays.