Political culture and ducal authority in Aquitaine, c. 900–1040
Fraser McNair
Abstract The development of ducal authority in tenth‐century Aquitaine was a major change the region's political culture. emergence regional, aristocratic polity shift from Carolingian past, and historians have proffered several explanations for it. This article examines models principalities: as expressions, however compromised, ethnic separatism; evolved forms ninth‐century administrative structures; power constellations no different any other. It traces history first duke, William Pious, early tenth century, to Poitevin dukes mid‐eleventh century. post‐Carolingian duchy Aquitaine, it is argued, best understood not an or institutional formative, but distinctive expression changing regional
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