Nordic Elites in Transformation, C. 1050-1250

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Contents
List of Figures and Maps
List of Abbreviations
Preface
1 Introduction
Section I Social Bonds, Social Resources
	2 Kith and Kin: Ties of Blood and Marriage
	3 Lords and Followers: Patron-Client Relationships
	4 Friends and Allies: Networks of Horizontal Bonds
Section II Patterns of Networks
	5 Aristocratic Networks During the Late Viking Age in the Light of Runic Inscriptions
	6 Nordic and Eastern Elites. Contacts Across the Baltic Sea: An Exiled Clan
	7 Contact and Continuity: England and the Scandinavian Elites in the Early Middle Ages
	8 Character Networks of the Íslendinga Sögur and Þættir
	9 Angels in Scandinavia: Papal Legates and Networks of Nordic Elites, Twelfth–Thirteenth Centuries
	10 Social Friendships Between the Dominican Order and Elite Groups in Thirteenth-Century Scandinavia
Section III Networks in Action
	11 Friends, Foes, and Followers: Power, Networks, and Intimacy in Medieval Iceland
	12 Forming Bonds With Followers in Medieval Iceland: The Cases of Thordr kakali and Thorgils skarði
	13 Strength Through Weakness: Regent Elites Under Kings Inge, Sigurd, and Magnus Haraldsson
	14 The Politics of Exile in Northern Europe: The Case of Knud V of Denmark
	15 Social Power and Conversion of Capital: Sune Ebbesen of Zealand
	16 Constructing the Friendships and Hierarchies of the Clerical Elite: A Case Study of the Relationship Between Øm Abbey and Bishop Tyge
	17 Elites and Social Bonds – How Nordic Were the Nordic Medieval Elites?
List of Contributors
Index