TY - JOUR
AU - Laurent, Jane K.
AB - Medieval 749 linguistic claims, and all other dubious contentions heir was favored in each generation, from 1220 that have traditionally distorted the reality and family property was more equally divided among understanding of the history of Transylvania in all male children, thus leading to the dissolution of general and of Kronstadt in particular. the family's patrimony. The study, remarkable by its scholarship, intel- The author's careful analysis of marriage pat- ligence, objectivity, and originality, is indispens- terns, property holdings, and political maneuvers able to all students of medieval urban history and confirms in general the outline of meridional of Transylvanian civilization prior to the Habs- society traced by Pierre Bonnassie, Cinzio Vio- burg-Ottoman confrontations of the sixteenth lante, Jean-Pierre Poly, and others. Where Aurell century. differs, it is generally to present a more conserva- STEPHEN FISCHER-GALATI tive interpretation of the relationship between the University of Colorado Porcelets and the church. He disputes Poly's con- tention that the Porcelet acquired the Vieux Bourg through simony, arguing instead that it was a comital grant. He categorically rejects any class MARTIN AURELL. Une famille de la noblesse provenÇale au Moyen Age: Les Porcelet. Foreword by NOEL or economic analysis of the antiepiscopal 
TI - Trevor Dean. Land and Power in Late Medieval Ferrara: The Rule of the Este, 1350–1450. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, fourth series, number 70.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1988. Pp. xiv, 212. $44.50
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/94.3.749-a
DA - 1989-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/trevor-dean-land-and-power-in-late-medieval-ferrara-the-rule-of-the-gnS7KkoaUM
SP - 749
EP - 750
VL - 94
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -