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Informationen zum Autor Daniel Power is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of numerous articles on France and England in the central Middle Ages and co-editor of Frontiers in Question: Eurasian Borderlands 700–1700 (Macmillan, 1999). Klappentext Provides the first ever detailed study of Normandy's frontiers in the twelfth century. Zusammenfassung This 2004 book provides a detailed study of Normandy's frontiers in the twelfth century and explores how those borders were controlled. This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the subject! discussing ties of land and kinship and the effect of the political border on government! law and the Church. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Princely Power and the Norman Frontier: 1. The dukes of Normandy and the frontier regions; 2. Capetian government in the Franco-Norman marches; 3. The church and the Norman frontier; 4. The customs of Normandy and the Norman frontier; Part II. The Political Communities of the Norman Frontier: 5. The aristocracy of the Norman frontiers: origins and status; 6. The concerns of aristocratic lineages: marriage, kinship, neighbourhood and inheritance; 7. The lesser aristocracy; 8. Religious patronage and burial; Part III. The Political Development of the Norman Frontier: 9. The structures of politics on the Norman frontier; 10. The Norman frontier in the reign of Henry I (1106-35); 11. The Norman frontier and the Angevin dukes (1135-93); 12. The Norman frontier and the fall of Angevin Normandy (1193-1204); 13. The Norman Frontier after 1204; Conclusion; Appendix I. Genealogies; Appendix II. The campaigns in eastern Normandy of 1202.
