Nobles and nobility in medieval Europe : concepts, origins, transformations
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Nobles and nobility in medieval Europe : concepts, origins, transformations
Boydell, 2000
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The concept of nobility in the middle ages is the focus of this volume. Embracing regions as diverse as England (before and after the Norman Conquest), Italy, the Iberian peninsula, France, Norway, Poland, Portugal, and the Romano-German empire, it ranges over the whole medieval period from the fifth to the early sixteenth century. The articles confront many of the central issues about the origins and nature of `nobility', its relationship with the late Roman world, its acquisition and exercise of power, its association with military obligation, and its gradual `pacification' and transformation into a more or less willing instrument of royal government (indeed, the symbiotic relationship between royal, or imperial, and noble power is a recurring theme). Other ideas historically linked to the concept of nobility and discussed here are `nobility' itself; the distinction betweennobility of birth and nobility of character; chivalry; violence and its effects; and noblewomen as co-progenitors and transmitters of nobility of blood.
Dr ANNE DUGGAN teaches in the Department of History at King's College London.
Table of Contents
The Origins of the Nobility in Francia -
The Nearly Men: Boso of Vienne and Arnulf of Bavaria - Stuart Airlie
Nobility in the Ninth Century - Janet L Nelson
Continuity and Change in the Tenth-Century Nobility - Regine Le Jan
The Old English Vocabulary of Nobility - Jane Roberts
Nobles and Others: the social and cultural expression of power relations in the Middle Ages - Timothy A Reuter
Princely Nobility in an Age of Ambition (c. 1050-1150) - Thomas Bisson
Words, Concepts, and Phenomena: knighthood, lordship, and the early Polish nobility, c.1100-c.1350 - Piotr Gorecki
Nobles and Nobility in the Narrative Works of Hartmann von Aue - Martin H Jones
A Noble in Politics: Roger Mortimer in the period of baronial reform and rebellion 1258-1265 - David Carpenter
King Magnus and his Liegemen's 'Hirdskra': a portrait of the Norwegian nobility in the 1270s - Steinar Imsen
The Nobility of Medieval Portugal (XI-XIV Centuries) - Maria Joao Violante Branco
Noblewomen, Family, and Identity in Later Medieval Europe - Jennifer C Ward
The Western Nobility in the late Middle Ages: a survey of the historiography and some prospects for new research - Martin Aurell
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