Erika Graham-Goering is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of History at Ghent University where her research focuses on issues of lordship, reputation, and political and social ideologies in late medieval France. With extensive experience working in the national and departmental archives of France, she is the author of Aux origines de la guerre de succession de Bretagne (2019), a critical edition of documents from the 1341 Breton succession crisis.

'Overall, this book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of noble power in the later Middle Ages. This book thus has plenty to offer historians interested in the nature of noble power in the medieval period, and how this played out during periods of sustained conflict.' Matthew Hefferan, Royal Studies Journal

• Lists of illustrations; Acknowledgements; A note on names; Abbreviations; Introduction. Approaches to princely power; 1. The career of Jeanne de Penthièvre; 2. Concepts of power in Jeanne de Penthièvre's acta; 3. Managing property: Inheritance and seigneurial partnerships; 4. Managing people: Followers and service; 5. Managing order: Conflict, negotiation, and women as lords; 6. Debating the social context of princely power in 1341; 7. Legitimate rule and the balance of power; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Erika Graham-Goering is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of History at Ghent University where her research focuses on issues of lordship, reputation, and political and social ideologies in late medieval France. With extensive experience working in the national and departmental archives of France, she is the author of Aux origines de la guerre de succession de Bretagne (2019), a critical edition of documents from the 1341 Breton succession crisis.

'Overall, this book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of noble power in the later Middle Ages. This book thus has plenty to offer historians interested in the nature of noble power in the medieval period, and how this played out during periods of sustained conflict.' Matthew Hefferan, Royal Studies Journal

• Lists of illustrations; Acknowledgements; A note on names; Abbreviations; Introduction. Approaches to princely power; 1. The career of Jeanne de Penthièvre; 2. Concepts of power in Jeanne de Penthièvre's acta; 3. Managing property: Inheritance and seigneurial partnerships; 4. Managing people: Followers and service; 5. Managing order: Conflict, negotiation, and women as lords; 6. Debating the social context of princely power in 1341; 7. Legitimate rule and the balance of power; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.