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• Introduction
• 1. Grammars of Violence
• 2. Violence on the Street
• 3. 'Oes comme il fierent grans caus !' Tavern violence in thirteenth and early fourteenth-century Paris and Artois
• 4. Student Violence in Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-Century Paris
• 5. Urban Uprisings
• 6. Domestic Violence
• Conclusion.
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Medieval Violence provides a detailed analysis of the practice of medieval brutality, focusing on a thriving region of northern France in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. It examines how violence was conceptualised in this period, and uses this framework to investigate street violence, tavern brawls, urban rebellions, student misbehaviour, and domestic violence. The interactions between these various forms of violence are examined in order to demonstrate the complex and communicative nature of medieval brutality. What is often dismissed as dysfunctional behaviour is shown to have been highly strategic and socially integral. Violence was a performance, dependent upon the spaces in which it took place. Indeed, brutality was contingent upon social and cultural structures. At the same time, the common stereotype of the thoughtlessly brutal Middle Ages is challenged, as attitudes towards violence are revealed to have been complex, troubled, and ambivalent. Whether violence could function effectively as a form of communication which could order and harmonise society, or whether it inevitably degenerated into chaotic disorder where meaning was multivalent and incomprehensible, remained a matter of ongoing debate in a variety of contexts. Using a variety of source material, including legal records, popular literature, and sermons, Hannah Skoda explores experiences of, and attitudes towards, violence, and highlights profound contemporary ambiguity concerning its nature and legitimacy.
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• Chronology-- Introduction: The Age of Charlemagne-- Charlemagnes Royal Court-- Feudalism and the Military-- Life of the Common People: Housing, Food, Clothing-- The Economy: Work, Agriculture, Trade, Markets-- The Church: Religion, Monasticism, Education-- Science and Medicine-- Leisure and Games-- The Carolingian Renaissance: Art, Literature, and Libraries-- The Carolingian Legacy-- Glossary of Terms-- Further Reading-- Index.
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Charlemagne is sometimes credited with reviving classical scholarship and saving the West from Islamic invaders, but how did Charlemagne and his subjects live from day to day? Charlemagne had as large an impact on history as almost any individual. Had he not built his empire and encouraged what became known as the Carolinglan renaissance, much of the culture of ancient Rome would have been lost, and Christianity in the West may have died. But, on the personal level, people during the time of Charlemagne lived as they had for hundreds of years. Life was full of difficulties: the food supply could be depleted quickly by a bad growing season; most people had no access to artificial lighting; childbearing was extremely dangerous for both child and mother. Covering topics ranging from food, clothing, and housing to the intellectual life at court, and from military life to monastic life, Daily Life in the Age of Charlemagne provides readers with an accurate and fascinating picture of how life was lived in the the early Middle Ages. Though the era may seem distant and primitive, the people of Charlemagne's time dealt with issues that all cultures do: finding food, paying taxes, treating the sick, searching for meaning in life, educating the young, designing and building shelters, burying the dead, among others. In nine topical chapters, Daily Life in the Age of Charlemagne looks at the time period not from the perspective of political and military conquests but from the vantage point of everyday existence, giving readers a new perspective on this vibrant era. Twenty-five illustrations, two maps, and an annotated bibliography of print and electronic sources add reference value to this perfect starting point for student research.
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• Introduction: History Means More when it Comes with a Name--
• Chapter 1: The Beaugencys and the World around Them--
• Chapter 2: Beaugency Family Life--
• Chapter 3: "Those Who Fought:" Medieval Lordship--
• Chapter 4: Ralph I, Lord of Beaugency, c.1080-1130--
• Chapter 5: The Beaugencys and the Peasants--
• Chapter 6: The Beaugencys and the Community of Believers--
• Chapter 7: The Beaugencys, the Abbess and the Abbot-- Conclusion: From Warrior to Administrator.
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Medieval Lives c. 1000-1292: The World of the Beaugency Family is a gateway into Europe during the Central Middle Ages. Through charting the lives of the Beaugency family, this book delves into the history of Western Europe and explores the impact of the changes and events of the period on those who experienced them. The Central Middle Ages were years of profound transformation, and through the two centuries in which they lived the Beaugency family experienced many of the key developments that have characterized the period, such as the launch of the crusades and the emergence of the commercial economy. By following the lives of the family, this book instills a deeper understanding of the significance that human experience has on our ability to truly comprehend the crucial historical events of the age. It personalizes the history of the Middle Ages and provides students with a unique insight into the culture of the period. Containing maps, genealogical tables, over thirty images, a large collection of previously unpublished archival sources used throughout the book, and accompanied by a companion website with interactive features, Medieval Lives c. 1000-1292: The World of the Beaugency Family is a portal into the lives of the Beaugency family and an ideal introduction to the Central Middle Ages.
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• Prefatory Words... Introduction
• 1: The Five Discourses Pierre the Chanter and the Augustinian Tradition The Prose Salernitan Questions and the Galenic Tradition Andre the Chaplain and the Ovidian Tradition Jean Renart and the Tradition of Romance Jean Bodel and the Fabliaux Tradition
• 2: Participants: The Sociology of Sexuality The Physiological Parameters The Social Parameters The Marital Parameters On the Margin: Prostitutes and Holy Matrons
• 3: The Sexual Body The Learned Body The Body Concealed The Body Exposed
• 4: Sexual Desire Concupiscentia: The Theology of Desire Delectatio: The Physiology of Desire Passio: The Ovidian Tradition Joie et dolor: Their Interplay in the Romance Tradition Talent: The Fabliaux The Supremacy of Desire: Noncoital Sexuality and the Desire for God
• 5: Coitus Myths of Origins: Poets and Theologians The Physiology of Coitus Chastity Sexuality Modesty Sexual Techniques Nonconsensual Coitus: From Seduction to Rape
• 6: Children The Physiology of Reproduction: From Conception to Birth The Natalist Policy of Churchmen Restraints on Fecundity The Politics of Lineage: The Romances Conclusions: Sexuality, Gender, and History Sexuality Gender History: A Postlude
• Appendix 1: Robert of Courson, Summa XLII, 31, 32
• Appendix 2: Pierre the Chanter, Verbum abbreviatum (Long Version)
• Appendix 3: Pierre the Chanter, Questions Table
• 1: Fabliaux Containing Sexually Active Characters Classified by Social Group Table
• 2: Fabliaux Containing Sexual Encounters Classified by Ecclesiastical Categories Short Titles Notes Index.
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This study brings together widely divergent discourses to fashion a comprehensive picture of sexual language and attitudes at a particular time and place in the medieval world. John Baldwin introduces five representative voices from the turn of the 12th century in northern France: Pierre the Chanter speaks for the theological doctrine of Augustine; the "Prose Salernitan Questions", for the medical theories of Galen; Andre the Chaplain, for the Ovidian literature of the schools; Jean Renart, for the contemporary romances; and Jean Bodel, for the emerging voices of the fabliaux. Baldwin juxtaposes their views on a range of essential subjects, including social position, the sexual body, desire and act, and procreation. The result is a dialogue of how they agreed or disagreed with, ignored, imitated, or responded to each other at a critical moment in the development of European ideas about sexual desire, fulfillment, morality and gender. These spokesmen allow us into the discussion of sexuality inside the church and schools of the clergy, in high and popular culture of the leity. This heterogeneous discussion also offers a startling glimpse into the construction of gender specific to this moment, when men and women enjoyed equal status in sexual matters, if nowhere else. Taken together, these voices extend their reach, encompass their subject, and point to a centre where social reality lies. By articulating reality at its varied depths, this study takes its place alongside works by James Brundage, John Boswell and Leah Otis in extending our understanding of sexuality and sexual behaviour in the Middle Ages.
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• 1. Introduction: Occitan identity and self-perception--
• 2. Occitan 'feudalism'--
• 3. Knights and non-knightly combatants--
• 4. The knight and chivalry--
• 5. Courts and courtiers--
• 6. Peasants--
• 7. Towns--
• 8. Doctors and medicine--
• 9. Women--
• 10. Children--
• 11. Clergy, heretics and inquisitors-- Conclusion.
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Occitania, known today as the 'south of France', had its own language and culture in the Middle Ages. Its troubadours created 'courtly love' and a new poetic language in the vernacular, which were to influence European literature for centuries; and its Cathar heretics were the first victims of the Inquisition. This is the first comprehensive study of the society in which the troubadours lived. For readers of literature it offers a wide-ranging insight into the realities which lay behind the poetic mystique. For historians it opens up an important and and neglected area of medieval Europe, comparable to France, Germany and Catalonia, drawing on sources not readily accessible to those without specialist linguistic and literary expertise. It addresses major issues, such as the nature of feudalism, knighthood, courts, medicine, women, and the family, and is accessible to the reader interested generally in the Middle Ages or Occitan culture.
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• Introduction : aristocrats and their families
• The lands of the Loire, 1000-1200
• Aristocratic family life
• Aristocratic family life writ small : the Fréteval, Mondoubleau, and Dives kindred
• Inheritance : diversity and continuity
• Marriage and the disposition of property : a sign of status?
• Marriage : practicalities, ideologies, and affection
• For better, not worse : wives and husbands as partners in family and lordship
• Contestations : asserting and reasserting a place in the family
• Conclusion : out of love for my kin.

• Introduction : aristocrats and their families
• The lands of the Loire, 1000-1200
• Aristocratic family life
• Aristocratic family life writ small : the Fréteval, Mondoubleau, and Dives kindred
• Inheritance : diversity and continuity
• Marriage and the disposition of property : a sign of status?
• Marriage : practicalities, ideologies, and affection
• For better, not worse : wives and husbands as partners in family and lordship
• Contestations : asserting and reasserting a place in the family
• Conclusion: Out of love for my kin.

• FOREWORD INTRODUCTION PART ONE : NOBLE CONDUCT *Reconstructing Chivalry *From Preudommie to Chevalerie *Out of the Iron Age PART TWO : NOBLE DESCENT
• 4. Constructing Families
• 5. The Power of Lineage
• 6. The Growth of Snobbery PART THREE : NOBLE CLASS
• 7. Historians and Noble Class
• 8. Medieval People and Social Division
• 9. The Precocity of England PART FOUR : NOBLE LORDSHIP
• 10. The Feudal Debate
• 11. Power and Structures
• 12. Noble Women : The View from the Stands SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX .
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For 300 years scholars in Britain and France have been working industriously to explain the idea of medieval aristocracy. One part of this book analyses this enormous international field of publications, and breaks it down into four debates: on noble conduct, noble lineage, noble class and noble power. It identifies the points of divergence in the national traditions in each of these debates, and where they have been mutually incomprehensible. It integrates American historiography into the British and French debates as it touches on each. But in addition to all this, the book presents an entirely new perspective on each of the four great debates. Each is subjected to a thorough review by comparing current scholarship with what a vast range of historical source material actually says about each.
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• Introduction : aristocrats and their families
• The lands of the Loire, 1000-1200
• Aristocratic family life
• Aristocratic family life writ small : the Fréteval, Mondoubleau, and Dives kindred
• Inheritance : diversity and continuity
• Marriage and the disposition of property : a sign of status?
• Marriage : practicalities, ideologies, and affection
• For better, not worse : wives and husbands as partners in family and lordship
• Contestations : asserting and reasserting a place in the family
• Conclusion : out of love for my kin.

"In Out of Love for My Kin, Amy Livingstone examines the personal dimensions of the lives of aristocrats in the Loire region of France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. She argues for a new conceptualization of aristocratic family life based on an ethos of inclusion. Inclusivity is evident in the care that medieval aristocrats showed toward their families by putting in place strategies, practices, and behaviors aimed at providing for a wide range of relatives. Indeed, this care--and in some cases outright affection--for family members is recorded in the documents themselves, as many a nobleman and woman made pious benefactions 'out of love for my kin.' In a book made rich by evidence from charters--which provide details about life events including birth, death, marriage, and legal disputes over property--Livingstone reveals an aristocratic family dynamic that is quite different from the fictional or prescriptive views offered by literary depictions or ecclesiastical sources, or from later historiography. For example, she finds that there was no single monolithic mode of inheritance that privileged the few and that these families employed a variety of inheritance practices. Similarly, aristocratic women, long imagined to have been excluded from power, exerted a strong influence on family life, as Livingstone makes clear in her gender-conscious analysis of dowries, the age of men and women at marriage, lordship responsibilities of women, and contestations over property. The web of relations that bound aristocratic families in this period of French history, she finds, was a model of family based on affection, inclusion, and support, not domination and exclusion." from publisher's website.