Out of Love for My Kin : Aristocratic Family Life in the Lands of the Loire, 1000-1200.
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- 9780801458965
- Aristocracy (Social class) -- France -- Loire River Valley -- History -- To 1500
- Families -- France -- Loire River Valley -- History -- To 1500
- Kinship -- France -- Loire River Valley -- History -- To 1500
- Loire River Valley (France) -- Social life and customs
- France -- Social life and customs -- To 1328
- 305.5/209445
- HT653
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- Introduction: Aristocrats and Their Families -- 1. The Lands of the Loire, 1000-1200 -- 2. Aristocratic Family Life -- 3. Aristocratic Family Life Writ Small: The Fréteval, Mondoubleau, and Dives Kindred -- 4. Inheritance: Diversity and Continuity -- 5. Marriage and the Disposition of Property: A Sign of Status? -- 6. Marriage: Practicalities, Ideologies, and Affection -- 7. For Better, Not Worse: Wives and Husbands as Partners in Family and Lordship -- 8. Contestations: Asserting and Reasserting a Place in the Family -- Conclusion: Out of Love for My Kin -- Appendix. Genealogical Charts -- 1. The Counts of Chartres -- 2. The Viscounts of Châteaudun to c. 1200 -- 3. The Viscounts of Chartres -- 4. The Vidames of Chartres -- 5. The Lords of Alluyes-Gouet -- 6. The Lords of Montigny -- 7. The Fréteval-Mondoubleau-Dives Kindred -- 8. The Lords of Fréteval -- 9. The Dives Family -- 10. The Lords of Mondoubleau -- 11. The Descendants of Ingelbald Brito and Domitilla of Vendôme -- 12. The Lords of Lisle -- 13. The Lords of Langeais -- Works Cited -- Index.
Livingstone examines the personal dimensions of the lives of aristocrats in the Loire region of France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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