Family, Friends and Followers

Family, Friends and Followers
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 0521779340
ISBN-13 : 9780521779340
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Book Synopsis Family, Friends and Followers by : Gerd Althoff

Download or read book Family, Friends and Followers written by Gerd Althoff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political life in the middle ages was influenced heavily by the bonds people had to one another. Among these, the bonds of kinship, friendship and lordship were by far the most important. Ritual was also often used to create and strengthen these bonds, and conduct and behaviour within social groups was shaped by unwritten rules. People bound in these ways had a right to expect help and support from one another. Such bonds were both a fact and a necessity of life in the middle ages. Over time, however, these bonds and relationships changed, as did the rules and norms which governed them. The aim of this book is to document and describe the history of these crucial bonds, and the ways in which they shaped political life in Europe in the early and high middle ages.

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