Re-Thinking Kinship and Feudalism in Early Medieval Europe

Informationen zum Autor Stephen D. White is the Asa G. Candler Professor of Medieval History and Director of the Medieval Studies Program at Emory University! USA. Zusammenfassung The essays in this volume look at France and England from Merovingian and Anglo-Saxon times up to the 12th century. They analyze Latin and Old French discourses, investigating the dimensions of the noble's relationships with kin and others, questioning the practice of studying kinship and feudalism as independent systems of legal institutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Maitland on family and kinship; The invention of English individualism: Alan Macfarlane and the modernization of pre-modern England (with Richard T. Vann); Clotild's revenge: politics! kinship! and ideology in the Merovingian blood feud; Kinship and lordship in early medieval England: the story of Sigeberht! Cynewulf! and Cyneheard; The discourse of inheritance in 12th-century France: alternative models of the fief in 'Raoul de Cambrai'; English feudalism and its origins; Stratégie rhétorique dans la Conventio de Hugues de Lusignan; The politics of fidelity in early 11th-century France: Fulbert of Chartres! William of Aquitaine! and Hugh of Lusignan; Book review: Susan Reynolds! Fiefs and vassals: the medieval evidence reinterpreted; The politics of exchange: gifts! fiefs! and feudalism; Giving fiefs and honor: largesse! avarice! and the problem of 'feudalism' in Alexander's testament; Service for fiefs or fiefs for service: the politics of reciprocity; A crisis of fidelity in c.1000?; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen D. White, White Stephen D.
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.12.2005
• EAN: 9780860789604
• ISBN: 978-0-86078-960-4
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Variorum Collected Studies; Variorum Collected Studies Series; Variorum Collected Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Europe, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Constitution: government & the state, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Constitution: government and the state