Nobles and Nobility in Medieval Europe Concepts, Origins, Transformations [Paperback]

The great strength of this collection is its wide range...a valuable work for anyone interested in the social aspects of the medieval nobility. CHOICE Articles on the origins and nature of nobility , its relationship with the late Roman world, its acquisition and exercise of power, its association with military obligation, and its transformation into a more or less willing instrument of royal government. Embracing regions as diverse as England (before and after the Norman Conquest), Italy, the Iberian peninsula, France, Norway, Poland, Portugal, and the Romano-German empire, it ranges over the whole medieval period from the fifth to the early sixteenth century. Contributors: STUART AIRLIE, MARTIN AURELL, T. N. BISSON, PAUL FOURACRE, PIOTR GORECKI, MARTIN H. JONES, STEINAR IMSEN, REGINE LE JAN, JANET N. NELSON, TIMOTHY A REUTER, JANE ROBERTS, MARIA JOAO VIOLANTE BRANCO, JENNIFER C. WARDIntroduction: Concepts, Origins, Transformations - Anne J. DugganThe Origins of the Nobility in Francia -The Nearly Men: Boso of Vienne and Arnulf of Bavaria - Stuart AirlieNobility in the Ninth Century - Janet L NelsonContinuity and Change in the Tenth-Century Nobility - Regine Le JanThe Old English Vocabulary of Nobility - Jane RobertsNobles and Others: The Social and Cultural Expression of Power Relations in the Middle Ages - Timothy A ReuterPrincely Nobility in an Age of Ambition [c. 1050 - 1150] - Thomas BissonWords, Concepts, and Phenomena: Knighthood, Lordship, and the Early Polish Nobility, c. 1100 - c. 1350 - Piotr GoreckiNobles and Nobility in the Narrative Works of Hartmann von Aue - Martin H JonesA Noble in Politics: Roger Mortimer in the Period of Baronial Reform and Rebellion, 1258 - 1265 - David CarpenterKing Magnus and his Liegemen's 'Hirdskr?': A Portrait of the Norwegian Nobility in the 1270s - Steinar ImsenThe Nobility of Medieval Portugal [XIth - XIVth Centuries] - Maria Joao Violante BrancoNoblewomen, Family, and Identity in Later Medieval Europe - Jennifer C WalÓ^