UID:
edoccha_9958114988502883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 285 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-280-54472-4
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9786610544721
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1-84615-011-6
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0-585-44353-X
Content:
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 between nobility of birth and nobility of character; chivalry; violence and its effects; and noblewomen as co-progenitors and transmitters of nobility of blood. 〈br〉〈br〉 Dr ANNE DUGGAN teaches in the Department of History at King's College London.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Oct 2017).
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The origins of nobility in Francia / Paul Fouracre -- 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 / Timothy J. Reuter -- Princely nobility in the age of ambition (c. 1050-1150) / T.N. 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 / 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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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-85115-769-6
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781846150111
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