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This volume examines the aristocracy in Tuscany and in England across a period of two and a half centuries (1000-1250). It deals first with Tuscany, tracing the history of the aristocracy and illustrating its nature and evolution, and observing aristocratic behaviour and attitudes, and how aristocrats related to other members of society. Peter Coss then examines the history of England in the same periods. It is not, however, a comparative history, but employs Italian insights to look at the aristocracy in England and to move away from the traditional interpretation which revolves around Magna Carta and the idea of English exceptionalism. By offering a study of the aristocracy across a wide time-frame and with themes drawn from Italian historiography, Coss offers a new approach to studying aristocracy within its own contexts.
Contents
1: Introduction
Part One: The Tuscan Aristocracy
2: The Contextual Framework
3: The Aristocracy in City and Contado: Florence and the Fiorentino
4: The Aristocrazia Consolare: Pisa in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (c. 1000 - c. 1150)
5: Beyond the City: The Counts Guidi and their World
6: The Aristocracy of Southern Tuscany
7: Conflict and Stability within the Tuscan Aristocracy
8: From Knighthood to Nobility
Part Two: The Aristocracy in England
9: The Aristocracy in 'Carolingian' England
10: The Structure and Articulation of Aristocratic Society in Anglo-Norman England
11: At the Apex of the Aristocracy: The Earls of Chester as Case Study
12: The Nobility and the State in Angevin and Post-Angevin England
13: Reflections
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