Re-thinking Kinship And Feudalism in Early

This is the second collection of studies by Stephen D. White to be published by Variorum (the first being Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Century France). The essays in this volume look principally at France and England from Merovingian and Anglo-Saxon times up to the 12th century. They analyze Latin and Old French discourses that medieval nobles used to construct their relationships with kin, lords, men, and friends, and investigate the political dimensions of such relationships with particular reference to patronage/clientage, the use of land as an item of exchange, and feuding. In so doing, the essays call into question the conventional practice of studying kinship and feudalism as independent systems of legal institutions and propose new strategies for studying them.

Introduction

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Acknowledgements

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I Maitland on family and kinship

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II The invention of English individualism: Alan Macfarlane and the modernization of pre-modern England (with Richard T. Vann)

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III Clotild's revenge: politics, kinship, and ideology in the Merovingian blood feud

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IV Kinship and lordship in early medieval England: the story of Sigeberht, Cynewulf, and Cyneheard

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V The discourse of inheritance in twelfth-century France: alternative models of the fief in 'Raoul de Cambrai'

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Law and Government in Medieval England and Normandy: Essays in Honour of Sir James Holt, ed. George Garnett and John G. Hudson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994

VI English feudalism and its origins

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American Journal of Legal History 19. Philadelphia, PA, 1975

VII Strategie rhetorique dans la Conventio de Hugues de Lusignan

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Histoire et société: mélanges offerts à Georges Duby, vol. 2: Le tenancies, le fidèle et le citoyen. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence, 1993

VIII The politics of fidelity in early eleventh-century France: Fulbert of Chartres, William of Aquitaine, and Hugh of Lusignan

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Published here for the first time

IX Book Review: Susan Reynolds, Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted

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Law and History Review 15. Urbana and Chicago, IL, 1997

X The politics of exchange: gifts, fiefs, and feudalism

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First published in: Medieval Transformations: Texts, Power, and Gifts in Context, ed. Esther Cohen and Mayke B. de Jong. Leiden: Brill, 2001, pp. 169-188

XI Giving fiefs and honor: largesse, avarice, and the problem of "feudalism" in Alexander's testament

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The Medieval French Alexander, ed. Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002

XII Service for fiefs or fiefs for service: the politics of reciprocity

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Negotiating the Gift: Pre-Modern Figurations of Exchange, ed. Gadi Algazi, Valentin Groebner and Bernhard Jussen, Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für Geschichte, 188. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2003

XIII A crisis of fidelity in c.1000?

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First published in: Building Legitimacy: Political Discourses and Forms of Legitimacy in Medieval Societies, ed. Isabel Alfonso, Hugh Kennedy and Julio Escalona. Leiden: Brill, 2004, pp. 27-49

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