Introduction Jonathan Riley-Smith and David Luscombe 1. The rural economy and demographic growth Robert Fossier 2. Towns and the growth of trade Derek Keene 3. Government and community, 1024-1204 Susan Reynolds 4. The development of law Peter Landau 5. Knightly society Jean Flori 6. War, peace and the Christian order, 1024-1204 Ernst-Dieter Hehl 7. The structure of the church, 1024-1073 H. E. J. Cowdrey 8. Reform and the church, 1073-1122 I. S. Robinson 9. Religious communities, 1024-1215 Giles Constable 10. The institutions of the church, 1073-1216 I. S. Robinson 11. Thought and learning D. E. Luscombe 12. Religion and laity (including popular devotions and heresy) Bernard Hamilton 13. The crusades, 1095-1198 Jonathan Riley-Smith 14. The eastern churches Jean Richard 15. Muslim Spain and Portugal: al-Andalus and its neighbours, 1025-1198 Hugh Kennedy 16. The Jews in Europe and the Mediterranean basin in the eleventh and twelfth centuries Robert Chazan 17. Literature (Latin and vernacular) Jan Ziolkowski 18. Romanesque and gothic: architecture and the arts Patrick Kidson List of primary sources Bibliography of secondary sources arranged by chapter Index of manuscripts.

Les Baillis Comtaux de Flandre: des Origines a la Fin du XIV Siecle

The New Cambridge Medieval History

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The county of Flanders belonged to one of the most urbanisedregions of Western Europe. In the later medieval period, it witnessed therise of a new power elite. As a consequence of the state formation processimpoverished noble lineages who survived by serving the prince fusedwith rich patrician families who also took up princely offices. They didthis by forming social networks based on marriage alliances. The nobilitydid not at all close itself off from newcomers. During the fifteenth century,the possibilities for interaction between nobles and non-nobles werefrequent Burghers and members of the rural elites were ennobled indifferent ways. The ducal officers constructed family and social networksthat went beyond their class and geographical origins. The elite groups ofthe city and the surrounding countryside had a tendency to overlap.Important layers of this composite political elite developed into whatcould be considered a new 'state nobility'. Along with ennoblement andupward social mobility, high officials adopted the family structure of thepatrilineal 'lineage' typical of the nobility. The new regional political elitewhich was partially created by the state formation process also constructeditself subjectively by adapting what we could call a 'state ideology'.

Nobles, Patricians and Officers: The Making of a Regional Political Elite in Late Medieval Flanders

Recent historiography on the economic position of the later medieval nobility has seen a marked shift where the post-war paradigm of a "crisis of the nobility" is replaced with a tendency to stress the endurance of noblemen vis-a-vis the economic, political and social transformations of the fourteenth and fifteenth century. Yet, the question of how noble elites adapted to the economic changes of the later Middle Ages remains a poignant one. Based on an analysis of the Flemish nobility, this article suggests that a study of patterns of social mobility may contribute to a better understanding of that process and that a successful re-evaluation of this issue requires more attention to the pre-Plague era.

Les Baillis Comtaux de Flandre: des Origines a la Fin du XIV Siecle

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The New Cambridge Medieval History

Public Credit, with Special Reference to North-Western Europe

Nobles, Patricians and Officers: The Making of a Regional Political Elite in Late Medieval Flanders

The Late Medieval "Crisis of the Nobility" Reconsidered: The Case of Flanders

Constructing the past in eleventh-century Flanders: Hagiography at Saint-Winnoc