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Out of love for my kin : aristocratic family life in the lands of the Loire, 1000-1200 / Amy Livingstone.
LIBRA HT653.F7 L58 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Livingstone, Amy, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aristocracy (Social class)--France--Loire River Valley--History--To 1500.
- Aristocracy (Social class).
- Families--France--Loire River Valley--History--To 1500.
- Families.
- Kinship--France--Loire River Valley--History--To 1500.
- Kinship.
- History.
- Loire River Valley (France)--Social life and customs.
- Loire River Valley (France).
- France--Social life and customs--To 1328.
- France.
- Manners and customs.
- France--Loire River Valley.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 280 pages : maps, genealogical tables ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Introduction : aristocrats and their families
- The lands of the Loire, 1000-1200
- Aristocratic family life
- Aristocratic family life writ small : the Fréteval, Mondoubleau, and Dives kindred
- Inheritance : diversity and continuity
- Marriage and the disposition of property : a sign of status?
- Marriage : practicalities, ideologies, and affection
- For better, not worse : wives and husbands as partners in family and lordship
- Contestations : asserting and reasserting a place in the family
- Conclusion : out of love for my kin.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801448416
- 0801448417
- OCLC:
- 449283973
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