Those of My Blood : : Creating Noble Families in Medieval Francia / / Constance Brittain Bouchard.
For those who ruled medieval society, the family was the crucial social unit, made up of those from whom property and authority were inherited and those to whom it passed. One's kin could be one's closest political and military allies or one's fiercest enemies. While the general term...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- ONE. Introduction
- TWO. The Origins of the French Nobility
- THREE. Consanguinity and Noble Marriages
- FOUR. Family Structure and Family Consciousness in the Ninth Through Eleventh Centuries
- FIVE. The Bosonids, Rising to Power in the Late Carolingian Age
- SIX. Patterns of Women's Names in Royal Lineages
- SEVEN. The Migration of Women's Names in the Upper Nobility
- EIGHT. Genealogy and Politics: The Counts of Autun and Countess Adelaide of Chalon
- NINE. Twelfth-Century Family Structures
- TEN. Conclusions: Family Structure and the Transformations of the Year 1000
- Appendix A: The Problem of the Three Bernards and the Dukes of Aquitaine
- Appendix B: The Bosonids and the Family of Manasses
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments