Out of Love for My Kin

Livingstone, Amy

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“…Nobles prioritized patronage in the pays surrounding their landed estate primarily for the strategic purpose of reinforcing their family's reputation for "good works" and, prosaically, because personal contacts there facilitated the organization of labor involved. 34 For the wealthiest families decisions about how to prioritize aid were of increased complexity because the more real estate a family owned, the more likely it was that those landed properties were geographically dispersed, and the more irregular were the occasions when the owners were physically present in the pays.…”

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The Catholic Nobility’s Commitment to Écoles Libres in France, 1850-1905

Macknight¹

2017

Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques

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In France the Falloux Law of 1850 set out the distinction between state-run public schools and écoles libres maintained by individuals or associations. This article argues that Catholic nobles' historic propertybased and charitable ties with rural communities underpinned their foundation of écoles libres. Drawing upon the private archives of noble families the article shows how networking between aristocratic laity and religious orders facilitated the running of these schools. Nobles' determination to guard a reputation for charitable patronage, especially in the locality of their landed estate, meant they were impelled to invest financially in écoles libres when it made no practical sense to do so. From 1879 successive governments of the Third Republic introduced secularizing legislation that clashed with the aims of Catholic school founders. Even when taken to court for breaking republican laws nobles, nuns, and monks remained passionately committed to upholding the culture of Christian faith within education.

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The Catholic Nobility’s Commitment to Écoles Libres in France, 1850-1905

Macknight¹

2017

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“…Like other aristocratic women, the Angevin wives undoubtedly strengthened ties between the menfolk on both sides of the family. 20 At the heart of speculation about the familial origins of the first counts is whether the two centuries following the decline of Carolingian power in the late 800s were a period of continuity of Carolingian (and older) public institutions or a period of turmoil in which public order was replaced by violent rule by an upstart nobility who moved in to fill a power vacuum.…”

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The Counts of Anjou in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries: Understanding Power and Authority in the High Middle Ages

Dachowski

2015

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The county of Anjou has a central place in French and English historiography as one of the main territorial principalities that emerged in the tenth and eleventh centuries. The power and authority of Angevin counts in the tenth and eleventh centuries make the county central to debates over public and private authority -violence, coercion, and cooperation -and the continuity or discontinuity of Carolingian institutions in the early Capetian era. Its rich primary source record has allowed numerous studies to address these questions, but more work needs to be done making use of the methodology of emerging fields within medieval studies and with a focus on how the lesser nobility functioned in Anjou.

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Out of Love for My Kin

Cited by 2 publications

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The Catholic Nobility’s Commitment to Écoles Libres in France, 1850-1905

The Catholic Nobility’s Commitment to Écoles Libres in France, 1850-1905

The Counts of Anjou in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries: Understanding Power and Authority in the High Middle Ages

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