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La famille aristocratique languedocienne : parenté et patrimoine dans les vicomtés de Béziers et d'Agde (900-1170)

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Auteur / Autrice : Claudie Duhamel-Amado
Direction : Georges Duby
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Lettres
Date : Soutenance en 1994
Etablissement(s) : Paris 4

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Hitherto studies on parentage during the medieval period have been concerned above all with the northern part of occidental Christianity. Based on the documentary material available in Mediterranean Languedoc, this thesis looks at the organization of the aristocratic family in southern France, at all levels of inner stratification from the Xth century to the middle of the XIIth century. The development of the relationships between the family networks and the apparatus of powers shows that institutions and social configurations are market at least by a slow pace of transformation, if not by the permanence f forms. In southern France feudality was fostered by the Gregorian reformation, and thus established late in period. Anthroponomy is prominent among the methods of research used to reconstitute genealogies. Chronologically three stages can be singled out in the formation of the aristocraty. 1) in the Xth century being closely knit together parentage connections and loosely structured, and the group adapted itself to the control of the reorganization of the territory - the shires and the fortified network. 2) in the XIth century, a new structure, the lineage, appeared at first under an arborescent form, which preserved, in certain circumstances, the rights of daughters , cadets and cousins, but had certain effects on seigneury, one of them being the disaggregation of patrimony. Some solutions cheeked this disaggregation temporarily while, under the presence of feudality, seigneury was changing and powers were being concentrated. 3) in the XIIth century, the contradictions between an effective seigneury and the arborescent lineage was so acute that a new lineage pattern characterized by the tightening around the eldest, tended to impose itself