Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-354) and index.
Contents:
Noble conduct -- Reconstructing chivalry -- From preudommie to chevalerie -- Out of the iron age -- Noble descent -- Constructing families -- The power of lineage -- Inventing snobbery -- Noble class -- Historians and noble class -- Medieval people and social division -- The precocity of England -- Noble lordship -- The feudal debate -- Power and structures -- Noble women : the view from the stands.
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