Re Thinking Kinship And Feudalism In Early Medieval Europe

Author : Stephen D. White
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000939385

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Re-Thinking Kinship and Feudalism in Early Medieval Europe by Stephen D. White Pdf

This is the second collection of studies by Stephen D. White to be published by Variorum (the first being Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Century France). The essays in this volume look principally at France and England from Merovingian and Anglo-Saxon times up to the 12th century. They analyze Latin and Old French discourses that medieval nobles used to construct their relationships with kin, lords, men, and friends, and investigate the political dimensions of such relationships with particular reference to patronage/clientage, the use of land as an item of exchange, and feuding. In so doing, the essays call into question the conventional practice of studying kinship and feudalism as independent systems of legal institutions and propose new strategies for studying them.

Author : Lars Kjær
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424028

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The Medieval Gift and the Classical Tradition by Lars Kjær Pdf

Explores how classical ideals of generosity influenced the writing and practice of gift giving in medieval Europe.

Author : Dominique Barthélemy
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Chivalry
ISBN : 0801475600

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The Serf, the Knight, and the Historian by Dominique Barthélemy Pdf

Dominique Barthélemy presents a sharply revisionist account of the history of France around the year 1000, challenging the traditional view that France underwent a kind of revolution at the millennium which ushered in feudalism.

Author : Kate Cooper,Conrad Leyser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107138803

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Making Early Medieval Societies by Kate Cooper,Conrad Leyser Pdf

Examines the fundamental question of what held the societies of the post-Roman world together.

Author : David Rollason
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317861355

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Early Medieval Europe 300-1050 by David Rollason Pdf

The centuries following the collapse of the Roman Empire saw extraordinary change across Western Europe - in institutions, social structure, rural and urban life, religion, learning, scholarship and art. This innovative textbook provides students coming to the study of Early Medieval Europe for the first time with the conceptual and methodological tools to investigate the period for themselves. It identifies major research questions and historiographical debates and offers guidance on how to engage with and evaluate the major documentary sources and the evidence of art history and archaeology. Ideally structured to support courses and classes in Medieval European history, the book's features include: Over 50 carefully selected maps and illustrations accompanied by explanatory commentary Detailed guidance on further reading with research questions to aid understanding Timelines and maps to orientate the reader in each chapter An extensive companion website providing practical study guidance, reference materials and access to further primary sources Offering a road map to the rich written and non-written sources for this period, and the exciting recent scholarship, this book is an essential guide for any student wishing to gain a deeper level of understanding and greater confidence in creative and independent historical thought.

Author : Hans Hummer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192518293

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Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe by Hans Hummer Pdf

What meaning did human kinship possess in a world regulated by Biblical time, committed to the primacy of spiritual relationships, and bound by the sinews of divine love? In the process of exploring this question, Hans Hummer offers a searching re-examination of kinship in Europe between late Roman times and the high middle ages, the period bridging Europe's primitive past and its modern future. Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe critiques the modernist and Western bio-genealogical and functionalist assumptions that have shaped kinship studies since their inception in the nineteenth century, when Biblical time collapsed and kinship became a signifier of the essential secularity of history and a method for conceptualizing a deep prehistory guided by autogenous human impulses. Hummer argues that this understanding of kinship is fundamentally antagonistic to medieval sentiments and is responsible for the frustrations researchers have encountered as they have tried to identify the famously elusive kin groups of medieval Europe. He delineates an alternative ethnographic approach inspired by recent anthropological work that privileges indigenous expressions of kinship and the interpretive potential of native ontologies. This study reveals that kinship in the middle ages was not biological, primitive, or a regulator of social mechanisms; nor was it traceable by bio-genealogical connections. In the Middle Ages, kinship signified a sociality that flowed from convictions about the divine source of all things and which wove together families, institutions, and divinities into an expansive eschatological vision animated by 'the most righteous principle of love'.

Author : Jean Shepherd Hamm
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313359682

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Term Paper Resource Guide to Medieval History by Jean Shepherd Hamm Pdf

Help students get the most out of studying medieval history with this comprehensive and practical research guide to topics and resources. Term Paper Resource Guide to Medieval History brings key historic events and individuals alive to enrich and stimulate students in challenging and enjoyable ways. Students from high school to college will be able to get a jump start on assignments with the hundreds of term paper projects and research information offered here. The book transforms and elevates the research experience and will prove an invaluable resource for motivating and educating students. Each event entry begins with a brief summary to pique interest and then offers original and thought-provoking term paper ideas in both standard and alternative formats that often incorporate the latest in electronic media, such as the iPod and iMovie. The best primary and secondary sources for further research are annotated, followed by vetted, stable website suggestions and multimedia resources, usually films, for further viewing and listening.

Author : Chris Wickham
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300208344

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Medieval Europe by Chris Wickham Pdf

Chapter nine 1204: the failure of alternatives -- chapter ten Defining society: gender and community in late medieval Europe -- chapter eleven Money, war and death, 1350-1500 -- chapter twelve Rethinking politics, 1350-1500 -- chapter thirteen Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Author : Arnoud-Jan Bijsterveld
Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Belgium
ISBN : 9789065509581

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Do Ut Des by Arnoud-Jan Bijsterveld Pdf

Author : Tracey L. Billado
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317135586

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Feud, Violence and Practice by Tracey L. Billado Pdf

This collection presents an innovative series of essays about the medieval culture of Feud and Violence. Featuring both prominent senior and younger scholars from the United States and Europe, the contributions offer various methods and points of view in their analyses. All, however, are indebted in some way to the work of Stephen D. White on legal culture, politics, and violence. White's work has frequently emphasized the importance of careful, closely focused readings of medieval sources as well as the need to take account of practice in relation to indigenous normative statements. His work has thus made historians of medieval political culture keenly aware of the ways in which various rhetorical strategies could be deployed in disputes in order to gain moral or material advantage. Beginning with an essay by the editors introducing the contributions and discussing their relationships to Stephen White's work, to the themes of the volume, to each other, and to medieval and legal studies in general, the remainder of the volume is divided into three thematic sections. The first section contains papers whose linking themes are violence and feud, the second section explores medieval legal culture and feudalism; whilst the final section consists of essays that are models of the type of inquiry pioneered by White.

Author : Susan Reynolds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351219044

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The Middle Ages without Feudalism by Susan Reynolds Pdf

This volume brings together articles (including two hitherto unpublished pieces) that Susan Reynolds has written since the publication of her Fiefs and Vassals (1994). There she argued that the concepts of the fief and of vassalage, as generally understood by historians of medieval Europe, were constructed by post-medieval historians from the works of medieval academic lawyers and the writers of medieval epics and romances. Six of the essays reprinted here continue her argument that feudalism is unhelpful to understanding medieval society, while eight more discuss other aspects of medieval society, law, and politics which she argues provide a better insight into the history of western Europe in the Middle Ages. Three range outside the Middle Ages and western Europe in considering the idea of the nation, the idea of empire, and the problem of finding a consistent and comprehensible vocabulary for comparative and interdisciplinary history.

Author : Jackson W. Armstrong,Peter Crooks,Andrea Ruddick
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030772802

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Using Concepts in Medieval History by Jackson W. Armstrong,Peter Crooks,Andrea Ruddick Pdf

This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly with the practice of conceptual history as it relates to the study of the Middle Ages, exploring the pay-offs and pitfalls of using concepts in medieval history. Concepts are indispensable to historians as a means of understanding past societies, but those concepts conjured in an effort to bring order to the infinite complexity of the past have a bad habit of taking on a life of their own and inordinately influencing historical interpretation. The most famous example is ‘feudalism’, whose fate as a concept is reviewed here by E.A.R. Brown nearly fifty years after her seminal article on the topic. The volume’s contributors offer a series of case studies of other concepts – 'colony', 'crisis', 'frontier', 'identity', 'magic', 'networks' and 'politics' – that have been influential, particularly among historians of Britain and Ireland in the later Middle Ages. The book explores the creative friction between historical ideas and analytical categories, and the potential for fresh and meaningful understandings to emerge from their dialogue.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004221598

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Disputing Strategies in Medieval Scandinavia by Anonim Pdf

In Scandinavia the study of disputes is still a relatively new topic: The papers offered here discuss how conflicts were handled in Scandinavian societies in the Middle Ages before the emergence of strong centralized states. What strategies did people use to contest power, property, rights, honour, and other kinds of material or symbolic assets? Seven essays by Scandinavian scholars are supplemented by contributions from Stephen White, John Hudson and Gerd Althoff, to provide a new baseline for discussing both the strategies pursued in the political game and those used to settle local disputes. Using practice and process as key analytical concepts, these authors explore formal law and litigation in conjunction with non-formal legal proceedings such as out-of-court mediation, rituals, emotional posturing, and feuding. Their insights place the Northern medieval world in a European context of dispute studies. With introductory sections on social structure, sources materials, and the historiography of Scandinavian dispute studies. Contributors are Gerd Althoff, Catharina Andersson, Kim Esmark, Lars Ivar Hansen, Lars Hermanson, John Hudson, Auður G. Magnúsdóttir, Hans Jacob Orning, Helle Vogt and Stephen D. White.

Author : John Hudson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 981 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198260301

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The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume II by John Hudson Pdf

"The Oxford History of the Laws of England" provides a detailed survey of the development of English law and its institutions from the earliest times until the twentieth century, drawing heavily upon recent research using unpublished materials.

Author : John Hudson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 981 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191630033

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The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume II by John Hudson Pdf

This volume in the landmark Oxford History of the Laws of England series, spans three centuries that encompassed the tumultuous years of the Norman conquest, and during which the common law as we know it today began to emerge. The first full-length treatment of all aspects of the early development of the English common law in a century, featuring extensive research into the original sources that bring the era to life, and providing an interpretative account, a detailed subject analysis, and fascinating glimpses into medieval disputes. Starting with King Alfred (871-899), this book examines the particular contributions of the Anglo-Saxon period to the development of English law, including the development of a powerful machinery of royal government, significant aspects of a long-lasting court structure, and important elements of law relating to theft and violence. Until the reign of King Stephen (1135-54), these Anglo-Saxon contributions were maintained by the Norman rulers, whilst the Conquest of 1066 led to the development of key aspects of landholding that were to have a continuing effect on the emerging common law. The Angevin period saw the establishment of more routine royal administration of justice, closer links between central government and individuals in the localities, and growing bureaucratization. Finally, the later twelfth and earlier thirteenth century saw influential changes in legal expertise. The book concludes with the rebellion against King John in 1215 and the production of the Magna Carta. Laying out in exhaustive detail the origins of the English common law through the ninth to the early thirteenth centuries, this book will be essential reading for all legal historians and a vital work of reference for academics, students, and practitioners.