Re-thinking kinship and feudalism in early medieval Europe/

Main Author: White, Stephen D., 1945-
Corporate Author: Ashgate/Variorum
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Aldersho ; Burlington]: Ashgate/Variorum, c2005
Series:Variorum collected studies series CS823
Collected studies series CS823
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Maitland on family and kinship (The History of English Law: Centenary Essays on 'Pollock and Maitland', ed. John G. Hudson, Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 89. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996); II. The invention of English individualism: Alan Macfarlane and the modernization ofpre-moder England (with Richard T. Vann) [Social History 8. Abingdon, 1983]; III. Clotild's revenge: politics, kinship, and ideology in the Merovingian blood feud (Portraits of Medieval and Renaissance Living: Essays in Honor of David Herlihy, ed. Samuel K. Cohn Jr. and Steven A. Epstein. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1996); IV. Kinship and lordship in early medieval England: the story of Sigeberht, Cynewulf, and Cyneheard (Viator 20. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, 1989); V. The discourse of inheritance in twelfth-century France: alternative models of the fief in 'Raoul de Cambrai' (Law and Government in Medieval England and Normandy: Essays in Honour of Sir James Holt, ed. George Garnett and John G. Hudson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994); VI. English feudalism and its origins (American Journal of Legal History 19. Philadelphia, PA, 1975); VII. Stratègie rhètorique dans la Conventio de Hugues de Lusignan (Histoire et sociètè: mèlanges offerts a? Georges Duby, vol. 2: Le tenancier le fidele et le citoyen. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Universitè de Provence, 1993); VIII. The politics of fidelity in early eleventh-century France: Fulbert of Chartres, William of Aquitaine, and Hugh of Lusignan (Published here for the first time); IX. Book Review: Susan Reynolds, Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted (Law and History Review 15. Urbana and Chicago, IL, 1997); X. The politics of exchange: gifts, fiefs, and feudalism (First published in: Medieval Transformations: Texts, Power, and Gifts in Context, ed. Esther Cohen and Mayke B. de Jong. Leiden: Brill, 2001, pp. 169-188); XI. Giving fiefs and honor: largesse, avarice, and the problem of "feudalism" in Alexander's testament (The Medieval French Alexander, ed. Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox. Albany, NY State University of New York Press, 2002); XII. Service for fiefs or fiefs for service: the politics of reciprocity (Negotiating the Gift: Pre-Modern Figurations of Exchange, ed. GadiAlgazi, Valentin Groebner and Bernhard Jussen, Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts fir Geschichte, 188. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2003); XIII. A crisis of fidelity in c.1000? (First published in: Building Legitimacy: Political Discourses and Forms of Legitimacy in Medieval Societies, ed. Isabel Alfonso, Hugh Kennedy and Julio Escalona. Leiden: Brill, 2004, pp. 27-49).