Format:
Online-Ressource (ix, 248 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0812235908
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9780812235906
Series Statement:
The Middle Ages series
Content:
"Focusing on the Frankish realm between the eighth and twelfth centuries, Constance Brittain Bouchard outlines the operative definitions of "family" in this period when there existed various and flexible ways by which individuals were or were not incorporated into the family group. Even in medieval patriarchal society, women of the aristocracy, considered outsiders by their husbands and their husbands' siblings and elders, were never completely marginalized; paradoxically they represented the very essence of "family" to their male children. Bouchard also engages in the ongoing scholarly debate about the nobility around the year 1000, arguing that there was no clear point of transition from amorphous family units to agnatically structured kindred. Instead, she points out that great noble families always privileged the male line of descent, even if most did not establish father-son inheritance until the eleventh or twelfth century. Those of My Blood clarifies the complex meanings of medieval family structure and family consciousness and shows the many ways negotiations of power within the noble family can help explain early medieval politics."--Jacket
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-244) and index
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""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface ""; ""Abbreviations ""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. The Origins of the French Nobility""; ""3. Consanguinity and Noble Marriages""; ""4. Family Structure and Family Consciousness in the Ninth Through Eleventh Centuries""; ""5. The Bosonids, Rising to Power in the Late Carolingian Age""; ""6. Patterns of Women's Names in Royal Lineages""; ""7. The Migration of Women's Names in the Upper Nobility""; ""8. Genealogy and Politics: The Counts of Autun and Countess Adelaide of Chalon""; ""9. Twelfth-Century Family Structures""
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""10. Conclusions: Family Structure and the Transformations of the Year 1000""""Appendix A: The Problem of the Three Bernards and the Dukes of Aquitaine""; ""Appendix B: The Bosonids and the Family of Manasses""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Acknowledgments""
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812201406
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812235906
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Those of my blood
Language:
English
