Center and Periphery -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Foreword by Jacques Le Goff -- Map -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Historiographical Introduction -- PART ONE: ROYAL POWER AND MINORITIES -- 1. Christian Love, Jewish "Privacy," and Medieval Kingship -- 2. The Castilian Monarchy and the Jews (Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries) -- 3. Royal Power and Ritual Murder: Notes on the Expulsion of the Jews from the Royal Domain of France, 1182 -- 4. The Intimacy of Exception: The Diagnosis of Samuel Abenmenassé -- 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 -- 6. Peacemaking, Performance, and Power in Thirteenth-Century San Gimignano -- 7. Captivity and Diplomacy in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon -- PART THREE: RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETY -- 8. The Economic Power of a Hospital in Thirteenth-Century Provins -- 9. "In Some Way Even More than Before": Approaches to Understanding St. Louis of Anjou, Franciscan Bishop of Toulouse -- 10. "In Order to Keep the Memory": Miracle Cults as Sources of Authority in the Crown of Aragon -- 11. Patrolling Normative Borders after the Black Death: The Bishop of Lucca's Criminal Court -- PART FOUR: CRUSADING, MEMORY, AND IDENTITY -- 12. Warrior or Saint? Joinville, Louis IX's Character, and the Challenge of the Crusade -- 13. Confessor King, Martyr Saint: Praying to Saint Maurice at Senlis -- 14. Men of France? Boundary Crossing in Constantinople in the 1240s -- 15. Victory by Desire: Crusade and Martyrdom in the Fourteenth Century -- PART FIVE: RETHINKING ISSUES OF MEDIEVAL LAW AND HISTORY -- 16. Custom's Two Bodies -- 17. A Cautionary Note.

Afterword - William Chester Jordan: A Life of Learning -- William Chester Jordan: A Bibliography -- General Bibliography -- Index.