The aristocracy
Stuart Airlie
This chapter presents the dynamics of aristocracy, primarily in Carolingian realms, by examining its relations with royal patrons and workings family structures. The creation empire offered opportunities to regional nobilities act on a European stage. For this elite, local origins were less important as form identity than membership group that governed empire, truly imperial Reichsaristokratie. Definitions status made within families could be fluid. emerges clearly from Dhuoda's text two ways. First, she herself draws distinction between broad narrow view when commemorates eight dead members her son William's kin whom seems regard genealogia, before going talk other relatives who stirps. Second, selects one being his most connection family: paternal uncle Theodericus.
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