The Birth of Nobility Constructing Aristocracy in England and France 900 1300 1st Edition by David Crouch 0582369819 9780582369818

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ISBN 10: 0582369819
ISBN 13: 978058236981
Author: David Crouch
For 300 years separate and mutually uncomprehending English and French historiographies have confused the history of medieval aristocracy. Unpicking the basic assumptions behind both national traditions, this book explains them, reconciles them and offers entirely new ways to take the study of aristocracy forward in both England and France. The Birth of Nobility analyses the enormous international field of publications on the subject of medieval aristocracy, breaking it down into four key debates: noble conduct, noble lineage, noble class and noble power. Each issue is subjected to a thorough review by comparing current scholarship with what a vast range of historical source material actually says. It identifies the points of divergence in the national traditions of each of these debates and highlights where they have been mutually incomprehensible. For students studying medieval Europe.

The Birth of Nobility 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part 1: Noble Conduct
1 Reconstructing Chivalry
 Preaching Chivalry
 Chivalry in Retreat, 1884–1984
 Towards Secularism: The Kingdom of Courtliness

2 From Preudommie to Chevalerie
 Noble Conduct before Chivalry: The Preudomme
 Courtliness and the Court before 1170
 Creating Chivalry: The Noble Habitus
 1. Loyalty and its Limits
 2. Forbearance
 3. Hardihood
 4. Largesse or Liberality
 5. The Davidic Ethic
 6. Honour
 The Appearance of the Code of Chivalry, 1170–1220

3 Out of the Iron Age

Part 2: Noble Descent
4 Constructing Families
The Age of Durkheim: The ‘Law’ of Family Contraction
 The Age of Lévi-Strauss: Unstructuring Families
 Noble Primogeniture and Lineage in England
 New Models of Noble Lineage

5 The Power of Lineage
Lineage and the Search for Distinction
Parage and the Search for Security
Defending Lineage and Parage

6 Inventing Snobbery
The Evidence of Heraldry
The Evidence of Death
The Evidence of Literature

Part 3: Noble Class
7 Historians and Noble Class
 The British and Class
 1. Maitland and the Domesday Bug
 2. The New Social History
 Explaining Class Formation
 1. The British and Aristocratic Communities
 2. The French and Privilege
 Transforming Society
 1. France and the Descent of the Ban
 2. A British Model of Localisation
 3. Castles
 A New Theory of Class Formation: ‘Cultural Diffusion’
 Class Mobility

8 Medieval People and Social Division
Religious Models of Society
Materialistic Divisions
Early Social Categories
 1. The Magnates
 2. The Middle Ground, 1000–1180
Inventing Social Boundaries
 1. Social Hierarchy
 2. Knighthood
 3. Extending Hierarchy, 1240–1300

9 The Precocity of England

Part 4: Noble Lordship
10 The Feudal Debate
Enlightenment and Romantic Feudalisms
Britain and the Feudal System after 1900
French Feudalism

11 Power and Structures
The Honor
Locality: Community and Affinity
Comparing France and England

12 Noble Women: The View from the Stands
Women in Historiography
The Minimalist View
Maximising the View
Women at Large

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