1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910810397703321

Titolo

Royal and elite households in medieval and early modern Europe : more than just a castle / / edited by Theresa Earenfight

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

90-04-36076-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (448 pages)

Collana

Explorations in medieval culture ; ; Volume 6

Disciplina

940.1

Soggetti

Royal households - Europe - History

Kings and rulers, Medieval

Castles - Europe - History

Europe Court and courtiers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- 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 Noble 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 infantes in the Avis Dynasty: Formation and Autonomy of Alternative Centers of Power in the Sixteenth Century / Hélder Carvalhal -- Index / Theresa Earenfight.

Sommario/riassunto

In this volume, the authors bring fresh approaches to the subject of royal and noble households in medieval and early modern Europe. The essays focus on the people of the highest social rank: the nuclear and extended royal family, their household attendants, noblemen and noblewomen as courtiers, and physicians. Themes include financial and administrative management, itinerant households, the household of an imprisoned noblewoman, blended households, and cultural influence. The essays are grounded in sources such as records of court ceremonial, economic records, letters, legal records, wills, and inventories. The authors employ a variety of methods, including prosopography, economic history, visual analysis, network analysis, and gift exchange, and the collection is engaged with current political, sociological, anthropological, gender, and feminist theories.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910969296903321

Autore

Schuller Mark <1973->

Titolo

Killing with kindness : Haiti, international aid, and NGOs / / Mark Schuller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, c2012

ISBN

9781283684033

1283684039

9780813553641

0813553644

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FarmerPaul

Disciplina

362.1/0425097294

Soggetti

Social medicine - Haiti

AIDS (Disease) - Haiti - International cooperation

Nonprofit organizations - Haiti

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Foreword / Farmer, Paul -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Doing Research during a Coup -- 1. Violence and Venereal Disease: Structural Violence, Gender, and HIV/AIDS -- 2. "That's Not Participation!": Relationships from "Below" -- 3. All in the Family: Relationships "Inside" -- 4. "We Are Prisoners!": Relationships from "Above" -- 5. Tectonic Shifts and the Political Tsunami: USAID and the Disaster of Haiti -- Conclusion: Killing with Kindness? -- Afterword: Some Policy Solutions -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Winner of the 2015 Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology After Haiti's 2010 earthquake, over half of U.S. households donated to thousands of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in that country. Yet we continue to hear stories of misery from Haiti. Why have NGOs failed at their mission? Set in Haiti during the 2004 coup and aftermath and enhanced by research conducted after the 2010 earthquake, Killing with Kindness analyzes the impact of official development aid on recipient NGOs and their relationships with local communities. Written



like a detective story, the book offers rich enthnographic comparisons of two Haitian women's NGOs working in HIV/AIDS prevention, one with public funding (including USAID), the other with private European NGO partners. Mark Schuller looks at participation and autonomy, analyzing donor policies that inhibit these goals. He focuses on NGOs' roles as intermediaries in "gluing" the contemporary world system together and shows how power works within the aid system as these intermediaries impose interpretations of unclear mandates down the chain-a process Schuller calls "trickle-down imperialism."