The aristocracy in the county of Champagne, 1100-1300 /
Theodore Evergates provides the first systematic analysis of the aristocracy in the county of Champagne under the independent counts. He argues that three factors--the rise of the comital state, fiefholding, and the conjugal family--were critical to shaping a loose assortment of baronial and knightl...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2007]
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Series: | Middle Ages series.
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Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
Table of Contents:
- Forming the county and a regional aristocracy
- Governing the principality and its aristocracy
- The circulation of fiefs
- The aristocratic family
- The marriage contract
- Inheritance and succession
- The aristocratic life course
- Aristocratic lineages : case studies.