Nobles and Nobility in Medieval Europe

• Introduction: Concepts, Origins, Transformations - Anne J. DugganThe Origins of the Nobility in Francia - The Nearly Men: Boso of Vienne and Arnulf of Bavaria - Stuart AirlieNobility in the Ninth Century - Janet L NelsonContinuity and Change in the Tenth-Century Nobility - Regine Le JanThe Old English Vocabulary of Nobility - Jane RobertsNobles and Others: The Social and Cultural Expression of Power Relations in the Middle Ages - Timothy A ReuterPrincely Nobility in an Age of Ambition [c. 1050 - 1150] - Thomas BissonWords, Concepts, and Phenomena: Knighthood, Lordship, and the Early Polish Nobility, c. 1100 - c. 1350 - Piotr GoreckiNobles and Nobility in the Narrative Works of Hartmann von Aue - Martin H JonesA Noble in Politics: Roger Mortimer in the Period of Baronial Reform and Rebellion, 1258 - 1265 - David CarpenterKing Magnus and his Liegemen's 'Hirdskrå': A Portrait of the Norwegian Nobility in the 1270s - Steinar ImsenThe Nobility of Medieval Portugal [XIth - XIVth Centuries] - Maria Joao Violante BrancoNoblewomen, Family, and Identity in Later Medieval Europe - Jennifer C WardThe Western Nobility in the Late Middle Ages: A Survey of the Historiography and some Prospects for New Research - Martin Aurell

The great strength of this collection is its wide range...a valuable work for anyone interested in the social aspects of the medieval nobility.