Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Personal Relations, Political Agency, and Economic
Clout in Medieval and Early Modern Royal and Elite Households
Theresa Earenfight
1 Domina et Fidelibus Eius: Elite Households in Tenth-Century
Francia and Anglo-Saxon England
Megan Welton
2 Maintaining Elite Households in Germany and Italy, 900-1115:
Finances, Control, and Patronage
Penelope Nash
3 Æthelings and their Entourages in Late Anglo-Saxon England: The
Households, Retinues and Networks of Two Sons of King Æthelred the
Unready
David McDermott
4 Joan de Valence and Her Household: Domesticity, Management, and
Organization in Transition from Wife to Widow
Linda E. Mitchell
5 Eleanor of Brittany in Confinement: Problematizing Paradigms of
the Household for Royal Prisoners
Eileen Kim
6 “All my frendys fro me thei flee”: The Disgraced and Unstable
Household of Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester
Sally Fisher
7 Serving Isabella of France: From Queen Consort to Dowager
Queen
Caroline Dunn
8 Political Power-Brokers in the Fifteenth Century English Royal
Household
Alexander Brondarbit
9 “Our Servants Say Scandalous Things about You:” Royal Households
in the Fourteenth-Century Crown of Aragon
Alana Lord
10 Love, Calumnies, Murders, War, Ambition, and Survival at the
Court of King Fernando and Queen Leonor Teles of Portugal
(1367-1384)
Isabel de Pina Baleiras
11 The Portuguese Household of an English Queen: Sources, Purposes,
Social Meaning (1387-1415)
Manuela Santos Silva
12 Royal Household and Political Parties: The Configuration of
Ferdinand the Catholic’s Entourage in Castile (1469-1516)
Germán Gamero Igea
13 Rocking the Cradle and Ruling the World: Queens’ Households in
Late Medieval and Early Modern Aragon and France
Zita Rohr
14 A Precarious Household: Catherine of Aragon in England,
1501-1504
Theresa Earenfight
15 There and Back Again: The Hospitality and Consumption of a
Sixteenth-Century English Travelling Household
Audrey M. Thorstad
16 The Households of Portuguese infantesin Avis Dynasty: Formation
and Autonomy of Alternative Centers of Power in the Sixteenth
Century
Hélder Carvalhal
Index
Theresa Earenfight, Professor of History at Seattle University, is author of Queenship in Medieval Europe (2013), The King’s Other Body (2010), and editor of Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (2005).
"The editor's introduction and sixteen papers offer a rich variety
of approaches to the announced topic. [...] an impressive
collection of serious work on a subject fully meriting our
consideration. Editor and contributors have served us well". Joel
T. Rosenthal, Sixteenth Century Journal, 2019.
"As economic and administrative units “quite distinct from those of
peasants, the gentry, and townspeople", royal and aristocratic
households are critical to understanding politics
in local, regional, international, intergenerational, and gendered
contexts (Earenfight 3). The sixteen essays in the volume, ranging
from the ninth to the mid-sixteenth
century, deepen understandings of state-building processes and
politics from a variety of perspectives: institutional, economic,
cultural, gendered, and familial. The volume will be a valuable
resource to political historians working on courts and gender.[...]
It is an important contribution to new directions in the field of
political history". Silvia Z. Mitchell, in Renaissance Quarterly,
73 (2), pp. 650-651.
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