Royal and Elite Households in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

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Contents List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Personal Relations, Political Agency, and Economic Clout in Medieval and Early Modern Royal and Elite Households Theresa Earenfight 1 Domina et Fidelibus Eius: Elite Households in Tenth-Century Francia and Anglo-Saxon England Megan Welton 2 Maintaining Elite Households in Germany and Italy, 900-1115: Finances, Control, and Patronage Penelope Nash 3 AEthelings and their Entourages in Late Anglo-Saxon England: The Households, Retinues and Networks of Two Sons of King AEthelred the Unready David McDermott 4 Joan de Valence and Her Household: Domesticity, Management, and Organization in Transition from Wife to Widow Linda E. Mitchell 5 Eleanor of Brittany in Confinement: Problematizing Paradigms of the Household for Royal Prisoners Eileen Kim 6 All my frendys fro me thei flee: The Disgraced and Unstable Household of Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester Sally Fisher 7 Serving Isabella of France: From Queen Consort to Dowager Queen Caroline Dunn 8 Political Power-Brokers in the Fifteenth Century English Royal Household Alexander Brondarbit 9 Our Servants Say Scandalous Things about You: Royal Households in the Fourteenth-Century Crown of Aragon Alana Lord 10 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 11 The Portuguese Household of an English Queen: Sources, Purposes, Social Meaning (1387-1415) Manuela Santos Silva 12 Royal Household and Political Parties: The Configuration of Ferdinand the Catholic's Entourage in Castile (1469-1516) German Gamero Igea 13 Rocking the Cradle and Ruling the World: Queens' Households in Late Medieval and Early Modern Aragon and France Zita Rohr 14 A Precarious Household: Catherine of Aragon in England, 1501-1504 Theresa Earenfight 15 There and Back Again: The Hospitality and Consumption of a Sixteenth-Century English Travelling Household Audrey M. Thorstad 16 The Households of Portuguese infantesin Avis Dynasty: Formation and Autonomy of Alternative Centers of Power in the Sixteenth Century Helder Carvalhal Index