LEADER 05044nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910809431903321 005 20240418021301.0 010 $a1-283-21148-3 010 $a9786613211484 010 $a0-8122-0140-X 010 $a0-585-43619-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201406 035 $a(CKB)111056486693900 035 $a(OCoLC)51322040 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491885 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000259010 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11244439 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000259010 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10273588 035 $a(PQKB)10072045 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441428 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8386 035 $a(DE-B1597)448993 035 $a(OCoLC)979577565 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201406 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441428 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10491885 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321148 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486693900 100 $a20000920h20012001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$a"Those of my blood" $econstructing noble families in medieval Francia /$fConstance Brittain Bouchard 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2001. 210 4$aŠ2001 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 248 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-3590-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [227]-244) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAbbreviations --$tONE. Introduction --$tTWO. The Origins of the French Nobility --$tTHREE. Consanguinity and Noble Marriages --$tFOUR. Family Structure and Family Consciousness in the Ninth Through Eleventh Centuries --$tFIVE. The Bosonids, Rising to Power in the Late Carolingian Age --$tSIX. Patterns of Women's Names in Royal Lineages --$tSEVEN. The Migration of Women's Names in the Upper Nobility --$tEIGHT. Genealogy and Politics: The Counts of Autun and Countess Adelaide of Chalon --$tNINE. Twelfth-Century Family Structures --$tTEN. Conclusions: Family Structure and the Transformations of the Year 1000 --$tAppendix A: The Problem of the Three Bernards and the Dukes of Aquitaine --$tAppendix B: The Bosonids and the Family of Manasses --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aFor those who ruled medieval society, the family was the crucial social unit, made up of those from whom property and authority were inherited and those to whom it passed. One's kin could be one's closest political and military allies or one's fiercest enemies. While the general term used to describe family members was consanguinei mei, "those of my blood," not all of those relations-parents, siblings, children, distant cousins, maternal relatives, paternal ancestors, and so on-counted as true family in any given time, place, or circumstance. In the early and high Middle Ages, the "family" was a very different group than it is in modern society, and the ways in which medieval men and women conceptualized and structured the family unit changed markedly over time. Focusing on the Frankish realm between the eighth and twelfth centuries, Constance Brittain Bouchard outlines the operative definitions of "family" in this period when there existed various and flexible ways by which individuals were or were not incorporated into the family group. Even in medieval patriarchal society, women of the aristocracy, who were considered outsiders by their husbands and their husbands' siblings and elders, were never completely marginalized and paradoxically represented the very essence of "family" to their male children. Bouchard also engages in the ongoing scholarly debate about the nobility around the year 1000, arguing that there was no clear point of transition from amorphous family units to agnatically structured kindred. Instead, she points out that great noble families always privileged the male line of descent, even if most did not establish father-son inheritance until the eleventh or twelfth century. Those of My Blood clarifies the complex meanings of medieval family structure and family consciousness and shows the many ways in which negotiations of power within the noble family can help explain early medieval politics. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aNobility$zFrance$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aNobility$zFrance$vGenealogy 606 $aKnights and knighthood$zFrance$xHistory$yTo 1500 610 $aHistory. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 615 0$aNobility$xHistory 615 0$aNobility 615 0$aKnights and knighthood$xHistory 676 $a929.7/4 700 $aBouchard$b Constance Brittain$0836770 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809431903321 996 $a"Those of my blood"$93996840 997 $aUNINA