Counting piety in the early and high Middle Ages / Arnold Angenendt ... [et al.] -- Counting piety in the late Middle Ages / Thomas Lentes -- Perceiving social reality in the early and high Middle Ages / Otto Gerhard Oexle -- Liturgy and legitimation, or, How the Gallo-Romans ended the Roman Empire / Bernhard Jussen -- Inventing a social category : the sociogenesis of the nobility at the end of the Middle Ages / Joseph Morsel -- (Royal) favor : a central concept in early medieval hierarchical relations / Gerd Althoff -- Satisfaction : peculiarities of the amicable settlement of conflicts in the Middle Ages / Gerd Althoff -- Peace through conspiracy / Otto Gerhard Oexle