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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of plates -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART ONE: NOBLE CONDUCT -- 1 Reconstructing Chivalry -- Preaching Chivalry -- Chivalry in Retreat, 1884-1984 -- Towards Secularism: The Kingdom of Courtliness -- 2 From Preudommie to Chevalerie -- Noble Conduct before Chivalry: The Preudomme -- Courtliness and the Court before 1170 -- Creating Chivalry: the Noble Habitus -- The Appearance of the Code of Chivalry, 1170-1220 -- 3 Out of the Iron Age -- PART TWO: NOBLE DESCENT -- 4 Constructing Families -- The Age of Durkheim: The 'Law' of Family Contraction -- The Age of Lévi-Strauss: Unstructuring Families -- Noble Primogeniture and Lineage in England -- New Models of Noble Lineage -- 5 The Power of Lineage -- Lineage and the Search for Distinction -- Parage and the Search for Security -- Defending Lineage and Parage -- 6 Inventing Snobbery -- The Evidence of Heraldry -- The Evidence of Death -- The Evidence of Literature -- PART THREE: NOBLE CLASS -- 7 Historians and Noble Class -- The British and Class -- Explaining Class Formation -- Transforming Society -- A New Theory of Class Formation: 'Cultural Diffusion' -- Class Mobility -- 8 Medieval People and Social Division -- Religious Models of Society -- Materialistic Divisions -- Early Social Categories -- Inventing Social Boundaries -- 9 The Precocity of England -- PART FOUR: NOBLE LORDSHIP -- 10 The Feudal Debate -- Enlightenment and Romantic Feudalisms -- Britain and the Feudal System after 1900 -- French Feudalism -- 11 Power and Structures -- The Honor -- Locality: Community and Affinity -- Comparing France and England -- 12 Noble Women: The View from the Stands -- Women in Historiography -- The Minimalist View -- Maximising the View -- Women at Large -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

William the Conqueror's victory in 1066 was the beginning of a period of major transformation for medieval English aristocrats. In this groundbreaking book, David Crouch examines for the first time the fate of the English aristocracy between the reigns of the Conqueror and Edward I. Offering an original explanation of medieval society -- one that no longer employs traditional "feudal" or "bastard feudal" models -- Crouch argues that society remade itself around the emerging principle of nobility in the generations on either side of 1200, marking the beginning of the ancien regime. The book describes the transformation in aristocrats' expectations, conduct, piety, and status; in expressions of social domination; and in the relationship with the monarchy. Synchronizing English social history with non-English scholarship, Crouch places England's experience of change within a broader European transformation and highlights England's important role in the process. With his accustomed skill, Crouch redefines a fascinating era and the noble class that emerged from it. - Publisher