La baja nobleza del reino de Valencia durante la baja edad media es un tema que ofrece grandes posibilidades para la investigación, lo que nos permitiría comprender más y mejor la evolución política ...y las relaciones de poder en el dicho reino durante los siglos XIV y XV. Por ello, en este artículo trataremos de analizar el origen y la composición familiar de la baja nobleza de la ciudad de Valencia a finales del siglo XIV y entender la problemática de los bandos y la conflictividad de las élites en este periodo a través de cuestiones como la gestión del patrimonio y las relaciones familiares o de afinidad.
This is a major study of Charles I's relationship with the English aristocracy. Rejecting the traditional emphasis on the 'Crisis of the Aristocracy', Professor Richard Cust highlights instead the ...effectiveness of the King and the Earl of Arundel's policies to promote and strengthen the nobility. He reveals how the peers reasserted themselves as the natural leaders of the political nation during the Great Council of Peers in 1640 and the Long Parliament. He also demonstrates how Charles deliberately set out to cultivate his aristocracy as the main bulwark of royal authority, enabling him to go to war against the Scots in 1639 and then build the royalist party which provided the means to fight parliament in 1642. The analysis is framed throughout within a broader study of aristocratic honour and the efforts of the heralds to stabilise the social order.
Nobility and Kingship in Medieval England is a major new account of the relationship between Edward I and his earls, and of the role of the English nobility in thirteenth-century governance. ...Re-evaluating crown-noble relations of the period, Spencer challenges traditional interpretations of Edward's reign, showing that his reputed masterfulness has been overplayed and that his kingship was far subtler, and therefore more effective, than this stereotype would suggest. Drawing from key earldoms such as Lincoln, Lancaster, Cornwall and Warenne, the book reveals how nobles created local followings and exercised power at a local level as well as surveying the political, governmental, social and military lives of the earls, prompting us to rethink our perception of their position in thirteenth-century politics. Adopting a powerful revisionist perspective, Spencer presents a major new statement about thirteenth-century England; one which will transform our understanding of politics and kingship in the period.
One of the goals of Russia's Eastern policy was to turn Moldavia
and Wallachia, the two Romanian principalities north of the Danube,
from Ottoman vassals into a controllable buffer zone and a
...springboard for future military operations against Constantinople.
Russia on the Danube describes the divergent interests and uneasy
cooperation between the Russian officials and the Moldavian and
Wallachian nobility in a key period between 1812 and 1834. Victor
Taki's meticulous examination of the plans and memoranda composed
by Russian administrators and the Romanian elite underlines the
crucial consequences of this encounter. The Moldavian and
Wallachian nobility used the Russian-Ottoman rivalry in order to
preserve and expand their traditional autonomy. The comprehensive
institutional reforms born out of their interaction with the tsar's
officials consolidated territorial statehood on the lower Danube,
providing the building blocks of a nation state.
The main conclusion of the book is that although Russian policy
was driven by self-interest, and despite the Russophobia among a
great part of the Romanian intellectuals, this turbulent period
significantly contributed to the emergence, several decades later,
of modern Romania.
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This study offers a new interpretation of how nobility was viewed in sixteenth-century France and the changes that occurred in that view as France moved into the period of religious wars and popular ...rebellions and the appearance of the absolutist state.
Originally published in 1986.
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In the tradition of the romantic historiography, the role of the Romanian nobility in preservation and promotion of the national spirituality in Transylvania and in the western part of today's ...Romania - territories that were held under Hungarian domination during the period of dualism, was pertinent revealed in the historical literature of the last years. But some anti-aristocratic views, propagated by journalists from "Federaţiunea" and „Gura Satului", two important Romanian political magazines, which appeared in Pest, at the beginning of the period of Austro-Hungarian dualism, were less highlighted. At a glance, the editors supported this trend due to their modern, bourgeois lawyer training. A more in-depth analysis of the anti-aristocratic standpoints promoted by the Romanian journalists in Pest points out that they were peddled depending more on the circumstances, due to political and national reasons. The main cause of promoting such views was the following: in the first years of the period of dualism the ennoblement was used by the Hungarian government as a tool to induce some of the leaders of the Romanian national movement to primarily back up the interests of the foreign political power.
Contrary to early modern patriarchal assumptions, this study argues that noblemen in early modern Spain depended on the active collaboration of noblewomen to maintain and expand their authority, ...wealth, and influence. Drawing on a variety of archival documents from Toledo, Grace Coolidge examines in detail the legal status of these women, their role within their families, and their responsibilities for the children and property in their care.
When the First Crusade ended with the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099, jubilant crusaders returned home to Europe bringing with them stories, sacred relics, and other memorabilia, including banners, ...jewelry, and weapons. In the ensuing decades, the memory of the crusaders' bravery and pious sacrifice was invoked widely among the noble families of western Christendom. Popes preaching future crusades would count on these very same families for financing, leadership, and for the willing warriors who would lay down their lives on the battlefield. Despite the great risks and financial hardships associated with crusading, descendants of those who suffered and died on crusade would continue to take the cross, in some cases over several generations. Indeed, as Nicholas L. Paul reveals inTo Follow in Their Footsteps, crusading was very much a family affair.
Scholars of the crusades have long pointed to the importance of dynastic tradition and ties of kinship in the crusading movement but have failed to address more fundamental questions about the operation of these social processes. What is a "family tradition"? How are such traditions constructed and maintained, and by whom? How did crusading families confront the loss of their kin in distant lands? Making creative use of Latin dynastic narratives as well as vernacular literature, personal possessions and art objects, and architecture from across western Europe, Paul shows how traditions of crusading were established and reinforced in the collective memories of noble families throughout the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Even rulers who never fulfilled crusading vows found their political lives dominated and, in some ways, directed by the memory of their crusading ancestors. Filled with unique insights and careful analysis,To Follow in Their Footstepsreveals the lasting impact of the crusades, beyond the expeditions themselves, on the formation of dynastic identity and the culture of the medieval European nobility.
