The Medieval nobility
Subtitle: studies on the ruling classes of France and Germany from the sixth to the twelfth century
By: edited and translated by Timothy Reuter.
Contributors: Reuter, Timothy.
Series: Europe in the Middle Ages ;; v. 14
Publisher: North-Holland Pub. Co.; distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Elsevier North-Holland
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York; New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Nobility -- France -- History -- To 1500.; Nobility -- Germany -- History -- To 1500.; Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500.
Description: x, 376 p. ; 23 cm
Notes: Bibliography: p. [331]-366.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Reuter, T. Introduction.; title: Genicot, L. Recent research on the medieval nobility.; title: Schmid, K. The structure of the nobility in the earlier Middle Ages.; title: Hauck, K. The literature of house and kindred associated with medieval noble families, illustrated from eleventh- and twelfth-century satires on the nobility.; title: Vercauteren, F. A kindred in northern France in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.; title: Irsigler, F. On the aristocratic character of early Frankish society.; title: Werner, K. F. Important noble families in the Kingdom of Charlemagne.; title: Tellenbach, G. From the Carolingian imperial nobility to the German estate of imperial princes.; title: Werner, K. F. Kingdom and principality in twelfth-century France.; title: Bosl, K. Noble unfreedom: the rise of the ministeriales in Germany.; title: Winter, J. M. van. The knightly aristocracy of the Middle Ages as a "social class."