Table of Contents

FOREWORD INTRODUCTION PART ONE : NOBLE CONDUCT PART TWO : NOBLE DESCENT PART THREE : NOBLE CLASS PART FOUR : NOBLE LORDSHIP SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

Promotional Information

What is the real story of the history of medieval aristocracy?
For 300 years scholars in Britain and France have been working industriously to explain the idea of medieval aristocracy.  This book is the first attempt at reconciling English and French ideas about aristocracy, and shaping them into a new debate.

About the Author

David Crouch is professor of medieval history at the University of Hull.  He is an aurthority on twelfth-and thirteenth-century English and Norman history.  His works on aristocracy include: The Beaumont Twins (Cambridge, 1986); The Image of Aristocracy in Britain, 1000-1300 (Routledge); William Marshal (2nd edn, Longman).  He has also published The Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 (Longman) and The Normans: the History of a Dynasty (Hambledon).

Reviews

" Under the broad headings of conduct, descent, class and lordship, shows how scholarship over the past centuries has resulted in the perceptions today." "British and Irish Bibliography"