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Medieval society was dominated by its knights and nobles. The literature created in medieval Europe was primarily a literature of knightly deeds, and the modern imagination has also been captured by these leaders and warriors. This book explores the nature of the nobility, focusing on France in the High Middle Ages (11th-13th centuries). Constance Brittain Bouchard examines their families; their relationships with peasants, townspeople, and clerics; and the images of them fashioned in medieval literary texts. She incorporates throughout a consideration of noble women and the nobility's attitude toward women.Research in the last two generations has modified and expanded modern understanding of who knights and nobles were; how they used authority, war, and law; and what position they held within the broader society. Even the concepts of feudalism, courtly love, and chivalry, once thought to be self-evident aspects of medieval society, have been seriously questioned. Bouchard presents bold new interpretations of medieval literature as both reflecting and criticizing the role of the nobility and their behavior. She offers the first synthesis of this scholarship in accessible form, inviting general readers as well as students and professional scholars to a new understanding of aristocratic role and function.

Nobility --- Chivalry --- Noblesse --- Chevalerie --- History. --- Histoire --- France --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- History --- Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Upper class --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Titles of honor and nobility --- Manners and customs --- Orders of knighthood and chivalry --- Civilization, Medieval --- Courtly love --- Crusades --- Feudalism --- Heraldry --- Knights and knighthood --- 1000-1328 --- Nobility - France - History - To 1500 --- Chivalry - France - History - To 1500 --- France - Civilization - 1000-1328

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For those who ruled medieval society, the family was the crucial social unit, made up of those from whom property and authority were inherited and those to whom it passed. One's kin could be one's closest political and military allies or one's fiercest enemies. While the general term used to describe family members was consanguinei mei, "those of my blood," not all of those relations-parents, siblings, children, distant cousins, maternal relatives, paternal ancestors, and so on-counted as true family in any given time, place, or circumstance. In the early and high Middle Ages, the "family" was a very different group than it is in modern society, and the ways in which medieval men and women conceptualized and structured the family unit changed markedly over time. Focusing on the Frankish realm between the eighth and twelfth centuries, Constance Brittain Bouchard outlines the operative definitions of "family" in this period when there existed various and flexible ways by which individuals were or were not incorporated into the family group. Even in medieval patriarchal society, women of the aristocracy, who were considered outsiders by their husbands and their husbands' siblings and elders, were never completely marginalized and paradoxically represented the very essence of "family" to their male children. Bouchard also engages in the ongoing scholarly debate about the nobility around the year 1000, arguing that there was no clear point of transition from amorphous family units to agnatically structured kindred. Instead, she points out that great noble families always privileged the male line of descent, even if most did not establish father-son inheritance until the eleventh or twelfth century. Those of My Blood clarifies the complex meanings of medieval family structure and family consciousness and shows the many ways in which negotiations of power within the noble family can help explain early medieval politics.

Nobility --- Knights and knighthood --- History --- 929.7 --- Adel. Eretitels --- 929.7 Adel. Eretitels --- Knighthood --- Civilization, Medieval --- Chivalry --- Heraldry --- Orders of knighthood and chivalry --- Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Upper class --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Titles of honor and nobility --- Nobility - France - History - To 1500. --- Nobility - France - Genealogy. --- Knights and knighthood - France - History - To 1500. --- History. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

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Nobility --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Social history --- History --- Great Britain --- France --- Social life and customs --- 316.343.32 --- 929.7 --- Adel --(sociale stratificatie) --- Adel. Eretitels --- 929.7 Adel. Eretitels --- 316.343.32 Adel --(sociale stratificatie) --- Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Upper class --- Titles of honor and nobility --- Aristocracy --- Aristocrats --- Nobility - Great Britain - History - To 1500 --- Nobility - France - History - To 1500 --- Aristocracy (Social class) - Great Britain - History - To 1500 --- Aristocracy (Social class) - France - History - To 1500 --- Social history - Medieval, 500-1500 --- Acqui 2006 --- Great Britain - Social life and customs - 1066-1485 --- France - Social life and customs - To 1328

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Civilization, Medieval --- Fifteenth century --- Monarchy --- Nobility --- Civilisation médiévale --- Quinzième siècle --- Monarchie --- Noblesse --- History --- Histoire --- France --- Kings and rulers --- Politics and government --- Rois et souverains --- Politique et gouvernement --- 944.025 --- 944.026 --- 944.02 --- Social history --- -Monarchy --- -Nobility --- -Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Upper class --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Titles of honor and nobility --- Kingdom (Monarchy) --- Executive power --- Political science --- Royalists --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Sociology --- Geschiedenis van Frankrijk: Charles V; begin van de Honderdjarige Oorlog--(1328-1380) --- Geschiedenis van Frankrijk: Honderdjarige Oorlog; Jeanne d'Arc; Charles VI; Charles VII--(1380-1461) --- Geschiedenis van Frankrijk--(987-1589) --- -History --- -France --- -Kings and rulers. --- Kings and rulers. --- -Geschiedenis van Frankrijk: Charles V; begin van de Honderdjarige Oorlog--(1328-1380) --- 944.02 Geschiedenis van Frankrijk--(987-1589) --- 944.026 Geschiedenis van Frankrijk: Honderdjarige Oorlog; Jeanne d'Arc; Charles VI; Charles VII--(1380-1461) --- 944.025 Geschiedenis van Frankrijk: Charles V; begin van de Honderdjarige Oorlog--(1328-1380) --- Civilisation médiévale --- Quinzième siècle --- Pʻŭrangsŭ --- Frankrig --- Francja --- Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Prantsusmaa --- Francia (Republic) --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Fa-kuo --- Faguo --- Франция --- French Republic --- République française --- Peurancih --- Frankryk --- Franse Republiek --- Francland --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- فرنسا --- Faransā --- Franza --- Republica Franzesa --- Gallia (Republic) --- Hyãsia --- Phransiya --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Францыя --- Frantsyi︠a︡ --- Французская Рэспубліка --- Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Parancis --- Pransya --- Franis --- Francuska --- Republika Francuska --- Bro-C'hall --- Френска република --- Frenska republika --- França --- República Francesa --- Pransiya --- Republikang Pranses --- Γαλλία --- Gallia --- Γαλλική Δημοκρατία --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- فرانسه --- Farānsah --- צרפת --- רפובליקה הצרפתית --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- פראנקרייך --- 法国 --- 法蘭西共和國 --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- フランス --- Furansu --- フランス共和国 --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Francija --- Ranska --- Frankrike --- Noble class --- Histoire médiévale --- Monarchy - France - History - To 1500. --- Nobility - France - History - To 1500.