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Wecowski offers a comprehensive account of the origins of the symposion and its close relationship with the rise of the Greek city-state or polis. Held by Greek aristocrats from Homer to Alexander the Great, its distinctive feature was the importance of diverse cultural competitions among the guests.

Symposium (Classical Greek drinking party) --- Drinking customs --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Symposion --- Boissons --- Aristocratie (Classe sociale) --- Fonctions sociales --- Greece --- Social life and customs. --- Symposium (Classical Greek drinking party). --- Symposion (Classical Greek drinking party)

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The Favor of Friends offers the first book-length exploration of intercession—aid and advocacy by one individual or group in behalf of another—within early medieval aristocratic societies. Drawing upon a variety of disciplines and historiographical traditions, Sean Gilsdorf demonstrates how this process operated, and how it was ideologically elaborated, in Carolingian and Ottonian Europe, allowing individuals and groups to leverage their own, limited interpersonal networks to the fullest, produce new relationships, gain access to previously closed spaces, and generate interest in their agendas from those able to effect change. The Favor of Friends enriches our understanding of early medieval politics and rulership, offering a model of political interaction in which hierarchy and comity do not stand in ideological and pragmatic tension, but instead work in integrated and mutually-reinforcing ways.

Aristocracy (Social class) --- Intercession --- Political culture --- Carolingians. --- Interceding --- Interpersonal relations --- Carlovingians --- Carolinians --- Culture --- Political science --- Aristocracy --- Aristocrats --- Upper class --- Nobility --- History --- France --- Holy Roman Empire --- Germany --- Aristocratie --- Culture politique --- Carolingiens --- Histoire --- Saint Empire romain germanique --- Fürbitte. --- Politische Kultur. --- Europa. --- Carolingians --- Aristocracy (Social class) - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Intercession - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Political culture - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Holy Roman Empire - History - Saxon House, 919-1024 --- France - History - To 987

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Aristocracy (Social class) --- Royal households --- Architecture and women --- Architecture, Domestic --- Aristocratie --- Maison du roi --- Architecture et femmes --- Architecture domestique --- Dwellings --- History --- Congresses --- Congresses. --- Résidences officielles --- Histoire --- Congrès --- Europe --- Kings and rulers --- Rois et souverains --- Architecture --- Nobility --- Aristocracy (Political science) --- Power (Social sciences) --- Résidences officielles --- Congrès

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Nobility and Kingship in Medieval England is a major new account of the relationship between Edward I and his earls, and of the role of the English nobility in thirteenth-century governance. Re-evaluating crown-noble relations of the period, Spencer challenges traditional interpretations of Edward's reign, showing that his reputed masterfulness has been overplayed and that his kingship was far subtler, and therefore more effective, than this stereotype would suggest. Drawing from key earldoms such as Lincoln, Lancaster, Cornwall and Warenne, the book reveals how nobles created local followings and exercised power at a local level as well as surveying the political, governmental, social and military lives of the earls, prompting us to rethink our perception of their position in thirteenth-century politics. Adopting a powerful revisionist perspective, Spencer presents a major new statement about thirteenth-century England; one which will transform our understanding of politics and kingship in the period.

Nobility --- Patronage, Political --- History --- Europe --- Great Britain. --- Edward --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- Political patronage --- Spoils system --- Civil service reform --- Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Upper class --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Titles of honor and nobility --- Relations with nobility. --- Arts and Humanities --- Clientelism, Political --- Patron-client politics --- Political clientelism --- Political sociology

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Although it is often assumed that resurgent royal government eliminated so-called 'private warfare', the French judicial archives reveal nearly one hundred such wars waged in Languedoc and the Auvergne between the mid-thirteenth and the end of the fourteenth century. Royal administrators often intervened in these wars, but not always in order to suppress 'private violence' in favour of 'public justice'. They frequently recognised elites' own power and legitimate prerogatives, and elites were often fully complicit with royal intervention. Much of the engagement between royal officers and local elites came through informal processes of negotiation and settlement, rather than through the imposition of official justice. The expansion of royal authority was due as much to local cooperation as to conflict, a fact that ensured its survival during the fourteenth-century crises. This book thus provides a new narrative of the rise of the French state and a fresh perspective on aristocratic violence.

Aristocracy (Social class) --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Elites (Social sciences) --- Leadership --- Power (Social sciences) --- Social classes --- Social groups --- Aristocracy --- Aristocrats --- Upper class --- Nobility --- History --- Languedoc (France) --- History, Military. --- Social conditions. --- Politics and government. --- Violence --- Social conflict --- State, The --- France --- Politics and government --- Administration --- Commonwealth, The --- Sovereignty --- Political science --- Class conflict --- Class struggle --- Conflict, Social --- Social tensions --- Interpersonal conflict --- Social psychology --- Sociology --- Violent behavior