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- catalog abstract ""Focusing on the Frankish realm between the eighth and twelfth centuries, Constance Brittain Bouchard outlines the operative definitions of "family" in this period when there existed various and flexible ways by which individuals were or were not incorporated into the family group. Even in medieval patriarchal society, women of the aristocracy, considered outsiders by their husbands and their husbands' siblings and elders, were never completely marginalized; paradoxically they represented the very essence of "family" to their male children. Bouchard also engages in the ongoing scholarly debate about the nobility around the year 1000, arguing that there was no clear point of transition from amorphous family units to agnatically structured kindred. Instead, she points out that great noble families always privileged the male line of descent, even if most did not establish father-son inheritance until the eleventh or twelfth century. Those of My Blood clarifies the complex meanings of medieval family structure and family consciousness and shows the many ways negotiations of power within the noble family can help explain early medieval politics."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b12090397.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Focusing on the Frankish realm between the eighth and twelfth centuries, Constance Brittain Bouchard outlines the operative definitions of "family" in this period when there existed various and flexible ways by which individuals were or were not incorporated into the family group. Even in medieval patriarchal society, women of the aristocracy, considered outsiders by their husbands and their husbands' siblings and elders, were never completely marginalized; paradoxically they represented the very essence of "family" to their male children. Bouchard also engages in the ongoing scholarly debate about the nobility around the year 1000, arguing that there was no clear point of transition from amorphous family units to agnatically structured kindred. Instead, she points out that great noble families always privileged the male line of descent, even if most did not establish father-son inheritance until the eleventh or twelfth century. Those of My Blood clarifies the complex meanings of medieval family structure and family consciousness and shows the many ways negotiations of power within the noble family can help explain early medieval politics."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. The Origins of the French Nobility -- 3. Consanguinity and Noble Marriages -- 4. Family Structure and Family Consciousness in the Ninth Through Eleventh Centuries -- 5. The Bosonids, Rising to Power in the Late Carolingian Age -- 6. Patterns of Women's Names in Royal Lineages -- 7. The Migration of Women's Names in the Upper Nobility -- 8. Genealogy and Politics: The Counts of Autun and Countess Adelaide of Chalon -- 9. Twelfth-Century Family Structures -- 10. Conclusions: Family Structure and the Transformations of the Year 1000 -- App. A. The Problem of the Three Bernards and the Dukes of Aquitaine -- App. B. The Bosonids and the Family of Manasses.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-244) and index.".
- catalog extent "ix, 248 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Those of my blood.".
- catalog identifier "0812235908 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Those of my blood.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Middle Ages series".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,".
- catalog relation "Those of my blood.".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog subject "929.7/4 21".
- catalog subject "CS587 .B68 2001".
- catalog subject "Knights and knighthood France History To 1500.".
- catalog subject "Nobility France Genealogy.".
- catalog subject "Nobility France History To 1500.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. The Origins of the French Nobility -- 3. Consanguinity and Noble Marriages -- 4. Family Structure and Family Consciousness in the Ninth Through Eleventh Centuries -- 5. The Bosonids, Rising to Power in the Late Carolingian Age -- 6. Patterns of Women's Names in Royal Lineages -- 7. The Migration of Women's Names in the Upper Nobility -- 8. Genealogy and Politics: The Counts of Autun and Countess Adelaide of Chalon -- 9. Twelfth-Century Family Structures -- 10. Conclusions: Family Structure and the Transformations of the Year 1000 -- App. A. The Problem of the Three Bernards and the Dukes of Aquitaine -- App. B. The Bosonids and the Family of Manasses.".
- catalog title ""Those of my blood" : constructing noble families in medieval Francia / Constance Brittain Bouchard.".
- catalog type "Genealogy. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".