The Birth of Nobility - Couverture souple

Crouch, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0582369819 ISBN 13 : 9780582369818

Editeur : Routledge, 2005

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

The history of medieval aristocracy is in crisis, collapsing under the weight of three centuries of work and confused by separate and mutually uncomprehending Anglophone and Francophone historiographies.  David Crouch lucidly summarises and analyses this enormous international field of publications, unpicking the basic assumptions behind both national traditions in order to explain and reconcile them. He offers new ways to take the study of aristocracy forward in both England and France.

 

The Birth of Nobility breaks down the study of medieval aristocracy into four debates on noble conduct, noble lineage, noble class and noble power.  Each is subjected to a thorough review by comparing current scholarship with a vast range of historical source material.

 

This is the first attempt to reconcile British and French ideas about aristocracy and shape them into a new debate. Supported by illustrations, this book:

 

·         Redirects the historiography concerning aristocracy

 

·         offers an original analysis of the nature of aristocracy and how it might be defined

 

·         discovers and explains for the first time the origins of chivalry

 

·         disposes of the myths around concepts like ‘feudalism’ and ‘primogeniture’

 

 

David Crouch is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Hull.  He is an authority on twelfth- and thirteenth-century English, Welsh and Norman history and his numerous books on aristocracy and Anglo-Norman History include The Beaumont Twins (1986); The Image of Aristocracy in Britain, 1000–1300 (1992); William Marshal (2002); The Reign of King Stephen, 1135–1154 (20000) and The Normans: the History of a Dynasty (2002).

Présentation de l'éditeur :

For 300 years scholars in Britain and France have been working industriously to explain the idea of medieval aristocracy.  One part of this book analyses this enormous international field of publications, and breaks it down into four debates: on noble conduct, noble lineage, noble class and noble power.  It identifies the points of divergence in the national traditions in each of these debates, and where they have been mutually incomprehensible.  It integrates American historiography into the British and French debates as it touches on each. 

But in addition to all this, the book presents an entirely new perspective on each of the four great debates.  Each is subjected to a thorough review by comparing current scholarship with what a vast range of historical source material actually says about each. 

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0582369819
• ISBN 13: 9780582369818
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384