Nobles and Nobility in Medieval Europe: Concepts, Origins, Transformations

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Nobles and Nobility in Medieval Europe

Concepts, Origins, Transformations

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2002

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The great strength of this collection is its wide range...a valuable work for anyone interested in the social aspects of the medieval nobility. CHOICE

Articles on 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 transformation into a more or less willing instrument of royal government. 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.

Contributors: STUART AIRLIE, MARTIN AURELL, T. N. BISSON, PAUL FOURACRE, PIOTR GORECKI, MARTIN H. JONES, STEINAR IMSEN, REGINE LE JAN, JANET N. NELSON, TIMOTHY A REUTER, JANE ROBERTS, MARIA JOAO VIOLANTE BRANCO, JENNIFER C. WARD

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Illustrations
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Contributors
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Abbreviations
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Preface
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Introduction: Concepts, Origins, Transformations
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Anne J. Duggan

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I Early Middle Ages
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1. The Origins of the Nobility in Francia
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Paul Fouracre

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2. The Nearly Men: Boso of Vienne and Arnulf of Bavaria
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Stuart Airlie

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3. Nobility in the Ninth Century
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Janet L. Nelson

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4. Continuity and Change in the Tenth-Century Nobility
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Régine Le Jan

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5. The Old English Vocabulary of Nobility
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Jane Roberts

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6. Nobles and Others: The Social and Cultural Expression of Power Relations in the Middle Ages
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Timothy Reuter

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II Central Middle Ages
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7. Princely Nobility in an Age of Ambition (c. 1050–1150)
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T. N. Bisson

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8. Words, Concepts, and Phenomena: Knighthood, Lordship, and the Early Polish Nobility, c. 1100 – c. 1350
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Piotr Górecki

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9. Nobles and Nobility in the Narrative Works of Hartmann von Aue
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10. A Noble in Politics: Roger Mortimer in the Period of Baronial Reform and Rebellion, 1258–1265
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D. A. Carpenter

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11. King Magnus and his Liegemen’s ‘Hirdskrå’: A Portrait of the Norwegian Nobility in the 1270s
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Steinar Imsen

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12. The Nobility of Medieval Portugal (XIth–XIVth Centuries)
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Maria João Violante Branco

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13. Noblewomen, Family, and Identity in Later Medieval Europe
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Jennifer C. Ward

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14. The Western Nobility in the Late Middle Ages: A Survey of the Historiography and some Prospects for New Research
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Martin Aurell

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Index
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Nobility; late Roman world; acquisition of power; military obligation; secular; religious contexts; England; Italy; Iberian peninsula; France; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Romano-German empire

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Nobles and Nobility in Medieval Europe

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About this book

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Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Contributors

Abbreviations

Preface

Introduction: Concepts, Origins, Transformations

1. The Origins of the Nobility in Francia

2. The Nearly Men: Boso of Vienne and Arnulf of Bavaria

3. Nobility in the Ninth Century

4. Continuity and Change in the Tenth-Century Nobility

5. The Old English Vocabulary of Nobility

6. Nobles and Others: The Social and Cultural Expression of Power Relations in the Middle Ages

7. Princely Nobility in an Age of Ambition (c. 1050–1150)

8. Words, Concepts, and Phenomena: Knighthood, Lordship, and the Early Polish Nobility, c. 1100 – c. 1350

9. Nobles and Nobility in the Narrative Works of Hartmann von Aue

10. A Noble in Politics: Roger Mortimer in the Period of Baronial Reform and Rebellion, 1258–1265

11. King Magnus and his Liegemen’s ‘Hirdskrå’: A Portrait of the Norwegian Nobility in the 1270s

12. The Nobility of Medieval Portugal (XIth–XIVth Centuries)

13. Noblewomen, Family, and Identity in Later Medieval Europe

14. The Western Nobility in the Late Middle Ages: A Survey of the Historiography and some Prospects for New Research

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