Erika Graham-Goering is Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation, and History at the University of Oslo.Jim van der Meulen is a social historian at Ghent University with a broad specialisation in the Low Countries between 1300 and 1700, combining expertise in political, socio-economic, cultural, and environmental history.Frederik Buylaert, Professor of History at Ghent University, is a social historian of the Low Countries with a side interest in comparative history and the history of historiography.

• List of Figures and MapsList of TablesNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsForewordIntroduction: Lordship and the Decentralized State in Late Medieval Europe1: John Watts: Lordship and the State: Alloy or Emulsion?Part I Case Studies of Lordship in France and the Low Countries2: Erika Graham-Goering: Integrative Approaches to (Co-)Lordship in Late Medieval Languedoc3: Ysaline Bourgine de Meder: Rehabilitating Norman Lordship: The Fief of Hauberk and its Judicial Rights in the 15th and 16th Centuries4: Georg Jostkleigrewe: (De)Centralizing Governance in Late Medieval France: Actors and Mechanisms5: Frederik Buylaert: Seigneurial Lordship and the State in the County of Flanders (c. 1350-1550)6: Wim Blockmans: Pursuit of Nobility and the Priorities of Political Representatives in Early 15th-Century Flanders7: Rombert Stapel and Arie van Steensel: Lordship in Medieval Holland and Zeeland8: Janna Everaert and Sieben Feys: Urban Political Elites and Seigneurial Lordship: Antwerp and its Hinterland (c. 1400-1550)9: Mario Damen and Jim van der Meulen: The Seigneurial Landscapes of Riverine Brabant and Guelders (15th-16th Centuries)Conclusions to Part I: Lordship, Commonwealth, Variegated Polities, and the StatePart II European Historiographies of Lordship10: Chris Given-Wilson: Lordship and State Formation in Late Medieval England11: Alice Taylor: Lordship and State Formation in Scotland, 1300-150012: Hillay Zmora: Lordship and State Formation in the Holy Roman Empire, 1300-155013: Francesco Bozzi: A Land of Lords: Lordship and State Formation in the Italian Peninsula14: José Antonio Jara Fuente: Jurisdiction: The Crooked Leg of Lordship? State Formation in Castile in the 15th Century15: Hans Jacob Orning: Lordship and State in Scandinavia, c. 1300-1500Conclusions to Part II: State and Lordship: Concluding RemarksIndex

Lordship and the Decentralized State in Late Medieval Europe offers a valuable contribution to and advancement of this historiographical reconciliation.