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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