Comparing medieval institutions: a few introductory remarks/ Gadi Algazi
2. Institutionalisation between theory and practice: comparative approaches to medieval Islamic and late Roman law / Caroline Humfress
3. The Ḥisba, the Muḥtasib and the Struggle over Political Power and a Moral Economy: An Enquiry into Institutions / Eduardo Manzano and Susana Narotzky
4. Codification in Byzantium from Justinian to Leo VI / Bernard H. Stolte
5. Codification in the Western Middle Ages / Emanuele Conte and Magnus Ryan
6. Codifying the Law: The Case of the Medieval Islamic West / Maribel Fierro
7. Law and Codification Conclusion / John Hudson
8. The Cost of States: Politics and Exactions in the Christian West (Sixth to Fifteenth Centuries) / Sandra Caracci and Simone McOllavini
9. Landholding and Law in the Early Islamic State / Hugh Kennedy
10. The Mobilisation of Fiscal Resources in the Byzantine Empire: (Eighth to Eleventh Centuries) / Vivien Prigent
11. State, Aggregation of the Elites and Redistribution of Resources in Sicily in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Proposals for a new interpretation / Annliese Nef
12. Resources and Power
Conclusion / Eduardo Manzano
13. The Palace Complex / Stuart Airlie
14. Palaces, Itineraries and Political Order in the Post-Carolingian Kingdoms / Simon MacLean
15. Monasteries: Institutionalisation and Organisation of Space in the Byzantine world until the end of the twelfth century / Michel Kaplan
16. The institutionalisation of Abbasid ceremonial / Nadia Maria El Cheikh
17. Palaces and Places: Conclusion / Ana Rodriguez
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