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Re-Thinking Kinship and Feudalism in Early Medieval Europe (Variorum Collected Studies)

By Stephen D. White

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2005
ISBN
9780860789604, 9781138375673, 9781003418719, 0860789608
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
46 MB (47751093 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
280\279
Time added
2023-12-11 18:06:14

Description

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.

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