TY - BOOK ID - 2272104 TI - The Beaumont twins : the roots and branches of power in the twelfth century PY - 1986 VL - 1 SN - 0521302153 052109013X 0511897138 9780521090131 9780521090131 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Power (Social sciences) KW - -Nobility KW - -Noble class KW - Noble families KW - Nobles (Social class) KW - Peerage KW - Upper class KW - Aristocracy (Social class) KW - Titles of honor and nobility KW - Empowerment (Social sciences) KW - Political power KW - Exchange theory (Sociology) KW - Political science KW - Social sciences KW - Sociology KW - Consensus (Social sciences) KW - History KW - -Beaumont family KW - Beaumont, Robert de Earl of Leicester KW - Beaumont, Waleran de comte de Meulan KW - Great Britain KW - -History KW - Beaumont, Robert de, KW - Beaumont, Waleran de, KW - Beaumont family. KW - -Power (Social sciences) KW - Nobility KW - De Beaumont, Waleran, KW - De Meulan, Waleran de Beaumont, KW - Galeran KW - Meulan, Galeran III, KW - Meulan, Waleran de Beaumont, KW - Waleran, KW - De Beaumont, Robert, KW - Leicester, Robert de Beaumont, KW - Robert, KW - Engeland. Geschiedenis. 12e eeuw. KW - Beaumont (Famille). KW - Angleterre. Histoire. 12e s. KW - Beaumont (Geslacht). KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Power (Social sciences) - History - To 1500 KW - Nobility - Great Britain - Biography KW - Beaumont, Robert de, - Earl of Leicester, - 1104-1168 KW - Beaumont, Waleran de, - comte de Meulan, - 1104-1166 KW - Beaumont family KW - Great Britain - History - Henry I, 1100-1135 KW - Great Britain - History - Stephen, 1135-1154 KW - Great Britain - History - Henry II, 1154-1189 - Biography UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2272104 AB - This book combines a simple dual biographical study of Waleran of Meulan and Robert of Leicester, the twin sons of Robert, Count of Meulan and Earl of Leicester, with an exploration of the exercise of power in twelfth-century Normandy and England. The twins were dominant and colourful characters, whose lives reveal many new points about the politics of the period, in particular the Norman rebellion of 1123-4, the wars of Stephen's reign in Normandy and England and the early years of Henry II. The book analyses the twins' followings, revenues and lands, and studies their relations with the church, their level of literacy, and heraldry. It also contains the first in-depth study of Norman feudal society in the duchy itself, suggests reasons why Normandy was more difficult to govern than England, and explores the use of patronage in twelfth-century society. ER -