Family Trees and the Roots of Politics

The Prosopography of Britain and France from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century

Inbunden, Engelska, 1997

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Articles on the significance of genealogy and kinship ties in determining political events in the middle ages.In recent decades historians have become increasingly aware of the value of prosopography as an auxiliary science standing at the crossroads between anthropology, genealogy, demography and social history. It is now developing as an independent research discipline of real benefit to medievalists. The geographically and chronologically wide-ranging subjects of the essays in this collection, by scholars from the British Isles and the Continent, are united bya common theme, namely the significance of genealogy and kinship ties in determining political events in the middle ages. The papers, including a review of the history of prosopography and some of its major successes as a method by Karl Ferdinand Werner, range from general considerations of prosopographical and genealogical methodology (including discussion of Anglo-Norman royal charters) to specific analyses of individual political and kinship groups (including the genealogy of the counts of Anjou and a rehabilitation of the prosopographical material in Wace's Roman de Rou). The main geographic focus is England and France from the tenth to the twelfth centuries, but other areas as diverse as Celtic Ireland and the Latin Principality of Antioch also come under prosopographical scrutiny.Contributors: DAVID E. THORNTON, ANNE WILLIAMS, C.P. LEWIS, DAVID BATES, ELISABETH VAN HOUTS, EMMA COWNIE, JUDITH GREEN, JOHN S. MOORE, K.S.B. KEATS-ROHAN, CHRISTIAN SETTIPANI, HUBERT GUILLOTEL, KATHLEEN THOMPSON, VERONIQUE GAZEAU, MICHEL BUR, ALAN V. MURRAY, DANIEL POWER.

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Utgivningsdatum:1997-07-03
Mått:156 x 234 x 31 mm
Vikt:742 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:394
Förlag:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN:9780851156255

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Dr K S B Keats-Rohan is Director of the Linacre Unit for Prosopographical Research and Fellow of the European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford. Daniel Power is Professor of Medieval History at Swansea University. He is the author of a number of works concerning France and the British Isles in the Central Middle Ages, including The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries (2004). He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (of London) and of the Royal Historical Society. Elisabeth van Houts is Honorary Professor of European Medieval History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Emmanuel College. Dr K S B Keats-Rohan is Director of the Linacre Unit for Prosopographical Research and Fellow of the European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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Medieval genealog[ists] will find that this work provides valuable insight into the sources available, as well as into some of the pitfalls to be encountered in their use.

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``Un vassal sans histoire'?: Count Hugh II (fl. c.955-992) and the Origins of Angevin Overlordship in Maine'. - L'apport de la prosopographie a l'histoire sociale des elites - K F WernerKings, chronicles and genealogies: reconstructing mediaeval celtic dynasties - David E ThorntonA west-country magnate of the eleventh century: the family, estates and patronage of Beorhtric son of AElfgar - E A WilliamsJoing the dots: a methodology for identifying the English in domesday book - C P LewisThe prosopographical study of Anglo-Norman royal charters - David BatesWace as historian - Elisabeth M C van HoutsReligious patronage and lordship: the debate on the nature of the honor - Emma CownieFamily matters: family and the formation of the Empress's party in south-west England - Judith GreenProsopographical problems of English libri vitae - John S Moore`Un vassal sans histoire'?: Count Hugh II (c.940/955-992) and the origins of Angevin overlordship in Maine - K S B Keats-RohanLes comtes d'Anjou et leurs alliances aux X et XIe siecles - Christian SettipaniCombour: proto-histoire d'une seigneurie et mis en oeuvre de la reforme gregorienne - Hubert GuillotelThe formation of the county of Perche: the rise and fall of the Gouet family - Kathleen ThompsonQuelques exemples de carrieres abbatiales en Normandie au Xe-XIIe siecles - V GazeauDe quelques champenois dans l'entourage francais des rois d'Angleterre aux XIe et XIIe siecles - Michel BurHow Norman was the principality of Antioch? Prolegomena to a study of the origins of the Nobility of a Crusader state - Alan V MurrayBetween the Angevin and Capetian courts: John de Rouvray and the knights of the pays de Bray, 1180-1225 - Daniel Power