Birth of Nobility Constructing Aristocracy in England and France, 900-1300

Name: Birth of Nobility Constructing Aristocracy in England and France, 900-1300
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ISBN: 9780582369818

ISBN-10: 0582369819

ISBN-13: 9780582369818

Edition: 2004

Authors: David Crouch

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For 300 years scholars in Britain and France have been working industriously to explain the idea of medieval aristocracy. One part of this book analyses this enormous international field of publications, and breaks it down into four debates: on noble conduct, noble lineage, noble class and noble power. It identifies the points of divergence in the national traditions in each of these debates, and where they have been mutually incomprehensible. It integrates American historiography into the British and French debates as it touches on each. But in addition to all this, the book presents an entirely new perspective on each of the four great debates. Each is subjected to a thorough review by…

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List price: $72.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/2/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.14" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



List of plates


Acknowledgements


Foreword


Introduction



Noble Conduct



Reconstructing Chivalry


Preaching Chivalry


Chivalry in Retreat, 1884-1984


Towards Secularism: The Kingdom of Courtliness



From Preudommie to Chevalerie


Noble Conduct before Chivalry: The Preudomme


Courtliness and the Court before 1170


Creating Chivalry: the Noble Habitus


The Appearance of the Code of Chivalry, 1170-1220



Out of the Iron Age



Noble Descent



Constructing Families


The Age of Durkheim: The 'Law' of Family Contraction


The Age of Levi-Strauss: Unstructuring Families


Noble Primogeniture and Lineage in England


New Models of Noble Lineage



The Power of Lineage


Lineage and the Search for Distinction


Parage and the Search for Security


Defending Lineage and Parage



Inventing Snobbery


The Evidence of Heraldry


The Evidence of Death


The Evidence of Literature



Noble Class



Historians and Noble Class


The British and Class


Explaining Class Formation


Transforming Society


A New Theory of Class Formation: 'Cultural Diffusion'


Class Mobility



Medieval People and Social Division


Religious Models of Society


Materialistic Divisions


Early Social Categories


Inventing Social Boundaries



The Precocity of England



Noble Lordship



The Feudal Debate


Enlightenment and Romantic Feudalisms


Britain and the Feudal System after 1900


French Feudalism



Power and Structures


The Honor


Locality: Community and Affinity


Comparing France and England



Noble Women: The View from the Stands


Women in Historiography


The Minimalist View


Maximising the View


Women at Large


Select Bibliography


Index