1st Edition
Status, Authority and Regional Power Aquitaine and France, 9th to 12th Centuries
By Jane Martindale
Copyright 1997
394 Pages
by
Routledge
394 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume contains articles covering the centuries between the establishment of Carolingian power in Western Europe and the expansion of the Anglo Norman and Angevin ’Empire’ within the French kingdom of the Capetians. The common underlying themes of these papers are the exercise of political power, and the social position and resources of those who wielded power. Aquitaine provides the focus... Read more
Contents: Charles the Bald and the government of the kingdom of Aquitaine; The kingdom of Aquitaine and the ’dissolution of the Carolingian fisc’; The nun Immena and the foundation of the abbey of Beaulieu: a woman’s prospects in the Carolingian Church; The French aristocracy in the early Middle Ages: a reappraisal; Succession and politics in the Romance-speaking world c.1000-1140; Peace and war in early 11th-century Aquitaine; An introduction to the Conventum inter Guillelmum Aquitanorum comitem et Hugonem Chiliarchum, 1969; Conventum inter Guillelmum Aquitanorum comitem et Hugonem Chiliarchum (includes new parallel translation with endnotes); Dispute, settlement and orality in the Conventum inter Guillelmum Aquitanorum comitem etHugonem Chiliarchum: a postscript to the edition of 1969; Aimeri of Thouars and the Poitevin connection; ’Cavalaria et Orgueill’: Duke William IX of Aquitaine and the historian; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Index.
Biography
Jane Martindale
