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French literature --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Man-woman relationships --- France --- Aristocracy (Social class) - Fiction --- Man-woman relationships - Fiction --- France - Fiction --- Novel - 18th century - Critical edition.

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Modern historians have generally approached the study of medieval society through chronicles, charters, and other documents composed in Latin by members of the clergy. Although these records may be satisfactory for studying the affairs of ecclesiastics, kings, and high barons, they are inadequate for assessing the major preoccupations of the aristocracy -- living extravagantly, fighting, making love, entertaining, eating and dressing ostentatiously, and, generally, earning the disapproval of the clergy. In 'Aristocratic Life in Medieval France', the respected medieval scholar John Baldwin undertakes a study of this segment of society using, for the first time in nearly a century, the vernacular romances written exclusively for the amusement of aristocratic audiences. Rather than attempting to encompass all of Middle Age Europe, this study selects two writers, Jean Renart and Gerbert de Montreuil, and their four romances. It focuses with depth and specificity on the discrete area of northern France during a precise period, 1190--1230. Since Jean and Gerbert framed their fictional stories with contemporary and realistic features that could be recognized by their audiences, their works provide a wealth of detail on aristocratic living. Employing such literary techniques as "reality effects" and "horizons of expectations," Baldwin successfully discerns the historical content in these romance narratives.

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Aristocracy (Social class) --- Nobility --- Social history --- Social classes --- Aristocratie --- Noblesse --- Histoire sociale --- Classes sociales --- History --- Histoire --- Europe --- Social conditions --- Conditions sociales

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Nobility --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Social history --- History --- Great Britain --- France --- Social life and customs --- 316.343.32 --- 929.7 --- Adel --(sociale stratificatie) --- Adel. Eretitels --- 929.7 Adel. Eretitels --- 316.343.32 Adel --(sociale stratificatie) --- Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Upper class --- Titles of honor and nobility --- Aristocracy --- Aristocrats --- Nobility - Great Britain - History - To 1500 --- Nobility - France - History - To 1500 --- Aristocracy (Social class) - Great Britain - History - To 1500 --- Aristocracy (Social class) - France - History - To 1500 --- Social history - Medieval, 500-1500 --- Acqui 2006 --- Great Britain - Social life and customs - 1066-1485 --- France - Social life and customs - To 1328

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Theodore Evergates provides the first systematic analysis of the aristocracy in the county of Champagne under the independent counts. He argues that three factors-the rise of the comital state, fiefholding, and the conjugal family-were critical to shaping a loose assortment of baronial and knightly families into an aristocracy with shared customs, institutions, and identity. Evergates mines the rich, varied, and in some respects unique collection of source materials from Champagne to provide a dynamic picture of a medieval aristocracy and its evolving symbiotic relationship with the counts.Count Henry the Liberal (1152-81) began the process of transforming a quasi-independent baronage accustomed to collegial governance into an elite of landholding families subordinate to the count and his officials. By the time Countess Jeanne married the future King Philip IV of France in 1284, the fiefholding families of Champagne had become a distinct provincial nobility. Throughout, it was the conjugal community, rather than primogeniture or patrilineage, that remained the core familial institution determining the customs regarding community property, dowry, dower, and partible inheritance. Those customs guaranteed that every lineage would survive, but frequently through a younger son or daughter. The life courses of women and men, influenced not only by social norms but also by individual choice and circumstance, were equally unpredictable. Evergates concludes that imposed models of "the aristocratic family" fail to capture the diversity of individual lives and lineages within one of the more vibrant principalities of medieval France.

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