Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Contributors viii
5. Abbreviations ix
6. Preface xi
7. Introduction: Concepts, Origins, Transformations 1
8. I Early Middle Ages
9. 1. The Origins of the Nobility in Francia 15
10. 2. The Nearly Men: Boso of Vienne and Arnulf of Bavaria 25
11. 3. Nobility in the Ninth Century 43
12. 4. Continuity and Change in the Tenth-Century Nobility 53
13. 5. The Old English Vocabulary of Nobility 69
14. 6. Nobles and Others: The Social and Cultural Expression of Power Relations in the Middle Ages 85
15. II Central Middle Ages
16. 7. Princely Nobility in an Age of Ambition (c. 1050–1150) 99
17. 8. Words, Concepts, and Phenomena: Knighthood, Lordship, and the Early Polish Nobility, c. 1100 – c. 1350 115
18. 9. Nobles and Nobility in the Narrative Works of Hartmann von Aue 157
19. 10. A Noble in Politics: Roger Mortimer in the Period of Baronial Reform and Rebellion, 1258–1265 183
20. 11. King Magnus and his Liegemen’s ‘Hirdskrå’: A Portrait of the Norwegian Nobility in the 1270s 205
21. 12. The Nobility of Medieval Portugal (XIth–XIVth Centuries) 223
22. 13. Noblewomen, Family, and Identity in Later Medieval Europe 246
23. 14. The Western Nobility in the Late Middle Ages: A Survey of the Historiography and some Prospects for New Research 263
24. Index 275