Nobles and nobility in medieval Europe : concepts, origins, transformations
Contains articles on the origins and nature of 'nobility', its relationship with the late Roman world, its acquisition and exercise of power, and its association with military obligation. Covering England, the Iberian peninsula, and the Romano-German empire, this work ranges over the medieval period, from the fifth to the early sixteenth century.
History
x, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780851157696, 9780851158822, 0851157696, 085115882X
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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