Table of Contents

Introduction: Concepts, Origins, Transformations - Anne J. Duggan
The Origins of the Nobility in Francia -
The Nearly Men: Boso of Vienne and Arnulf of Bavaria - Stuart Airlie
Nobility in the Ninth Century - Janet L Nelson
Continuity and Change in the Tenth-Century Nobility - Regine Le Jan
The Old English Vocabulary of Nobility - Jane Roberts
Nobles and Others: The Social and Cultural Expression of Power Relations in the Middle Ages - Timothy A Reuter
Princely Nobility in an Age of Ambition [c. 1050 - 1150] - Thomas Bisson
Words, Concepts, and Phenomena: Knighthood, Lordship, and the Early Polish Nobility, c. 1100 - c. 1350 - Piotr Gorecki
Nobles and Nobility in the Narrative Works of Hartmann von Aue - Martin H Jones
A Noble in Politics: Roger Mortimer in the Period of Baronial Reform and Rebellion, 1258 - 1265 - David Carpenter
King Magnus and his Liegemen's 'Hirdskrå': A Portrait of the Norwegian Nobility in the 1270s - Steinar Imsen
The Nobility of Medieval Portugal [XIth - XIVth Centuries] - Maria Joao Violante Branco
Noblewomen, Family, and Identity in Later Medieval Europe - Jennifer C Ward
The Western Nobility in the Late Middle Ages: A Survey of the Historiography and some Prospects for New Research - Martin Aurell

Reviews

The great strength of this collection is its wide range...a valuable work for anyone interested in the social aspects of the medieval nobility.
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