Noble Bondsmen : Ministerial Marriages in the Archdiocese of Salzburg, 1100–1343 /

Men and women who belonged to an estate unique to medieval Germany, the ministerials occupied a social position summarized by the oxymoron "noble bondsmen." While they retained the legal status of serfs, by the thirteenth century the ministerials included the warriors and administrators wh...

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Main Author: Freed, John B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1995.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Archiepiscopal Ministerialage
  • 2. Seigneurial and Canonical Restrictions on the Ministerials' Freedom to Marry
  • 3. Family Strategies
  • 4. The Burdens of Matrimony
  • 5. The Politics of Marriage
  • 6. Ministerial Self-Consciousness.