SOCIAL COMPLEXITY AND WEAK STATES THE FORMS OF GOVERNANCE IN WESTERN E

This book aims to investigate, from a comparative point of view, the forms of political articulation and social organisation in Western Europe during the early middle ages with the intention of contributing to the debates on social complexity that have been taking place in recent years in the field of social theory. The book is divided into two different but complementary areas. In the first part, Rethinking Central Authority , the essays offer a general framing of the problems linked to the study of power and its relations with the spaces over which central authority (from León to Italy) exercised its power.