Medieval Nobility: Studies on the Ruling Classes of France and Germany from the Sixth to the Twelfth Century (Europe in the Middle Ages)

by Timothy Reuter (editor)

English, French (translation)

376 pages, Hardcover

About the author

Timothy Alan Reuter, Medieval historian whose career included teaching at the university of Exeter, working at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in Munich before becoming Professor of History at the University of Southampton.

Reviews

[Michael Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

These ten chapters (by nine authors) all were originally published in German academic journals or anthologies between 1959 and 1975, and to a greater or lesser degree all suffer from being excessively "Germanic" in style. For the purposes of this bibliography, some are more interesting than others, especially "Important Noble Families in the Kingdom of Charlemagne," by Karl Ferdinand Werner, and "From the Carolingian Imperial Nobility to the German Estate of Imperial Princes," by Gerd Tellenbach, both of which name a lot of names. Other chapters, such as Karl Bosl’s "‘Noble Unfreedom’: The Rise of the Ministeriales in Germany," are unlikely to make one’s heart beat faster.