Introduction
The historiographical background
The place of the Carolingians in the Feudal Revolution
Methodology
Geography and sources
Part I. The Parameters of Carolingian Society
1. Institutional integration
Counts and the locality
Bishops and episcopal organisation
Royal power
Conclusion: Structures of authority
2. Networks of inequality
Aristocratic solidarities and the limits of Carolingian institutions of rule
The logic of aristocratic dominance
Conclusion: The dominance of lordship?
3. Carolingian co-ordinations
Carolingian symbolic communication between Marne and Moselle : gifts, violence and meetings
Characterising Carolingian symbolic communication
From symbolic communication to economies of meaning
Conclusion
Part II. The long tenth-century, c. 880 to c. 1030
4. The ebbing of royal power
The distancing of royal authority
Post-royal politics
The causes for the retreat of royal power
Conclusion
5. New hierarchies
The transformation of the Carolingian county
Lords and landlords in the long tenth century
Ritual and society in the tenth century
Conclusion: "Symbolic impoverishment"
Part III. The exercise of authority through property rights, c. 1030-1130
6. The banality of power
The rise of banal power
The reification of political power
Material consequences
Conclusion
7. Fiefs, Homage and the "Investiture Quarrel"
Fiefs and dependent property
Homage
The "Investiture Quarrel"
Towards a "secular liturgy"?
Conclusion
8. Upper Lotharingia and Champagne around 1100
The new political landscape between Marne and Moselle
Upper Lotharingia and Champagne compared
Architectures of power
Conclusion
Conclusion: Between the "long twelfth century" and the settlement of disputes
Reframing the Feudal Revolution : the Carolingian legacy
Manuscripts index.