The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300 - Theodore Evergates - Google Books

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Theodore Evergates provides the first systematic analysis of the aristocracy in the county of Champagne under the independent counts. He argues that three factors—the rise of the comital state, fiefholding, and the conjugal family—were critical to shaping…