Nobles and nobility in medieval Europe: concepts, origins, transformations

Abstract

Part 1 Early Middle Ages: the origins of the nobility in Francia, Paul Fouracre the nearly men - Boso of Vienne and Arnulf of Bavaria, Stuart Airlie nobility in the 9th century, Janet L. Nelson continuity and change in the 10th-century nobility, Regine Le Jan the Old English vocabulary of nobility, Jane Roberts nobles and others - the social and cultural expression of power relations in the Middle Ages, Timothy Reuter. Part 2 Central Middle Ages: princely nobility in an age of ambition (circa 1050-1150), T.N. Bisson words, concepts, and phenomena - knighthood, lordship, and the early Polish nobility, circa 1100-1350, Piotr Gorecki nobles and nobility in the narrative works of Hartmann von Aue, Martin H. Jones a noble in politics - Roger Mortimer in the period of baronial reform and rebellion, 1258-1265, David Carpenter King Magnus and his liegemen's Hirdskra - a portrait of the Norwegian nobility in the 1270s, Steinar Imsen. Part 3 Late Middle Ages: the nobility of medieval Portugal (11-14th centuries), Maria Joao Violante Branco noblewomen, family, and identity in later medieval Europe, Jennifer C. Ward the Western nobility in the late Middle Ages - a survey of the historiography and some prospects for new research, Martin Aurell.