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1 online resource (ix, 416 pages) : illustration, map. |
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Courts and courtiers language |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Explorations in medieval culture ; volume 6
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Explorations in medieval culture ; volume 6.
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| Summary |
In this volume, the authors bring fresh approaches to the subject of royal and noble households in medieval and early modern Europe. The essays focus on the people of the highest social rank: the nuclear and extended royal family, their household attendants, noblemen and noblewomen as courtiers, and physicians. Themes include financial and administrative management, itinerant households, the household of an imprisoned noblewoman, blended households, and cultural influence. The essays are grounded in sources such as records of court ceremonial, economic records, letters, legal records, wills, and inventories. The authors employ a variety of methods, including prosopography, economic history, visual analysis, network analysis, and gift exchange, and the collection is engaged with current political, sociological, anthropological, gender, and feminist theories. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Domina et fidelibus eius: elite households in tenth-century Francia and Anglo-Saxon England / Megan Welton -- Maintaining elite households in Germany and Italy, 900-1115: finances, control, and patronage / Penelope Nash -- Æthelings and their entourages in late Anglo-Saxon England: the households, retinues, and networks of two sons of King Æthelred the Unready / David McDermott -- Joan de Valence and her household: domesticity, management, and organization in transition from wife to widow / Linda E. Mitchell -- Eleanor of Brittany in confinement: problematizing paradigms of the household for noble prisoners / Eileen Kim -- "All my frendys fro me thei flee": the disgraced and unstable household of Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester / Sally Fisher -- Serving Isabella of France: from queen consort to dowager queen / Caroline Dunn -- Political power-brokers in the fifteenth-century English royal household / Alexander Brondarbit -- "Our servants say scandalous things about you:" royal households in the fourteenth-century crown of Aragon / Alana Lord -- Love, calumnies, murders, war, ambition, and survival at the court of King Fernando and Queen Leonor Teles of Portugal (1367-1384) / Isabel de Pina Baleiras -- The Portuguese household of an English queen: sources, purposes, social meaning (1387-1415) / Manuela Santos Silva -- Royal household and political parties: the configuration of Ferdinand the Catholic's entourage in Castile (1469-1516) / Germán Gamero Igea -- Rocking the cradle and ruling the world: queens' households in late medieval and early modern Aragon and France / Zita Rohr -- A precarious household: Catherine of Aragon in England, 1501-1504 / Theresa Earenfight -- There and back again: the hospitality and consumption of a sixteenth-century English travelling household / Audrey M. Thorstad -- The households of Portuguese infantes in the Avis dynasty: formation and autonomy of alternative centers of power in the sixteenth century / Hélder Carvalhal. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Royal households -- Europe -- History.
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Royal households. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
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Kings and rulers, Medieval.
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Kings and rulers, Medieval. |
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Europe -- Courts and courtiers.
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Castles -- Europe -- History.
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Castles. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Earenfight, Theresa, 1954- author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Royal and elite households in medieval and early modern Europe. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] 9789004314320 (DLC) 2017053528 (OCoLC)1019660523 |
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9789004360761 (electronic book) |
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900436076X (electronic book) |
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9789004314320 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9004314326 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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