Erika Maelan Graham-Goering

• Graham-Goering, Erika (2025). Integrative Approaches to (Co-)Lordship in Late Medieval Languedoc. I Graham-Goering, Erika; Meulen, Jim van der & Buylaert, Frederik (Red.), Lordship and the Decentralized State in Late Medieval Europe. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780197267844. s. 43–57. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Lordship and the Decentralized State in Late Medieval Europe rethinks the rise of modern European states as a process of decentralization. The idea that states made lordships obsolete is challenged by showing how the distribution of authority among local lords reinforced the development of new political systems. The origins of modern European states are often traced back to the expansion of royal and princely authority in the late Middle Ages, transforming scattered power structures into centralized governments. Lordship and the Decentralized State in Late Medieval Europe rethinks state formation as a process of decentralization, exploring how these governments willingly left power to lesser political players. It challenges the assumption that the rise of states made lordship obsolete, showing instead how distributing authority among local lords reinforced the development of new political systems. The contributors tackle this fresh perspective on lordship and state formation from two complementary angles. Detailed snapshots of lordship in France and the Low Countries assess the political significance of different aspects of lordly power. Historiographical essays discuss frameworks for understanding relationships between lordship and the state in contexts across Europe. These comparative perspectives establish an innovative approach to a key question in political history.

• Graham-Goering, Erika; Meulen, Jim van der & Buylaert, Frederik (2025). Introduction: Lordship and the Decentralized State in Late Medieval Europe. I Graham-Goering, Erika; Meulen, Jim van der & Buylaert, Frederik (Red.), Lordship and the Decentralized State in Late Medieval Europe. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780197267844. s. 1–19. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Lordship and the Decentralized State in Late Medieval Europe rethinks the rise of modern European states as a process of decentralization. The idea that states made lordships obsolete is challenged by showing how the distribution of authority among local lords reinforced the development of new political systems. The origins of modern European states are often traced back to the expansion of royal and princely authority in the late Middle Ages, transforming scattered power structures into centralized governments. Lordship and the Decentralized State in Late Medieval Europe rethinks state formation as a process of decentralization, exploring how these governments willingly left power to lesser political players. It challenges the assumption that the rise of states made lordship obsolete, showing instead how distributing authority among local lords reinforced the development of new political systems. The contributors tackle this fresh perspective on lordship and state formation from two complementary angles. Detailed snapshots of lordship in France and the Low Countries assess the political significance of different aspects of lordly power. Historiographical essays discuss frameworks for understanding relationships between lordship and the state in contexts across Europe. These comparative perspectives establish an innovative approach to a key question in political history.

• Graham-Goering, Erika (2024). Prince and Principality in the Breton War of Succession. I Andress, David (Red.), The Routledge Handbook of French History. Routledge. ISSN 9780367406820. s. 119–129. doi: 10.4324/9780367808471-12. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Aimed firmly at the student reader, this handbook offers an overview of the full range of the history of France, from the origins of the concept of post-Roman "Francia," through the emergence of a consolidated French monarchy and the development of both nation-state and global empire into the modern era, forward to the current complexities of a modern republic integrated into the European Union and struggling with the global legacies of its past. Short, incisive contributions by a wide range of expert scholars offer both a spine of chronological overviews and a diverse spectrum of up-to-date insights into areas of key interest to historians today. From the ravages of the Vikings to the role of gastronomy in the definition of French culture, from Caribbean slavery to the place of Algerians in present-day France, from the role of French queens in medieval diplomacy to the youth-culture explosion of the 1960s and the explosions of France’s nuclear weapons program, this handbook provides accessible summaries and selected further reading to explore any and all of these issues further, in the classroom and beyond.

• Alouane, Rim-Sarah; Oliveira, Patrick Luiz Sullivan De; Doria, Corinne; Ervine, Jonathan; Gillett, Rachel Anne & Graham-Goering, Erika [Vis alle 11 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2024). Roundtable: Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. French History. ISSN 0269-1191. 38(4), s. 478–506. doi: 10.1093/fh/crae039. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  One hundred years after Paris last hosted, the Olympic and Paralympic Games were held in the French capital this summer. To mark this centenary, French History gathered a group of academics together to write blog posts in response to different aspects of Paris 2024. Their posts, which were originally hosted on the French History Network Blog, invited readers to delve into the historical, cultural and sporting references being evoked by the opening ceremonies; to analyse the ways the Games were being used as a vehicle for wider political messages about France and its place in the world; and to reflect on the relationship between the images of France as projected through the Games and realities on the ground. We have collated the blog posts here, lightly edited and updated to reflect conclusion of the Games, and hope readers will enjoy reminding themselves of this very memorable French summer.

• Graham-Goering, Erika (2023). Une principauté décentrée? Perspectives offertes par la vicomté de Limoges à partir de 1341. I Bidot-Germa, Dominique; Courroux, Pierre & Lamazou-Duplan, Véronique (Red.), Gouverner et administrer les principautés des Alpes aux Pyrénées (XIIIe-XVIe siècle). Ausonius Editions. ISSN 9782356135438. s. 133–146. doi: 10.46608/primaluna20.9782356135438.9. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  En formulant ma question initiale en termes de centralisation – ou plutôt de décentralisation –, j’ai voulu m’attarder sur l’une des principales raisons pour lesquelles relativement peu de recherches ont été menées sur la vicomté de Limoges à la fin du Moyen Âge. La vicomté ne disposait pas d’une position centrale, et cela à plusieurs égards. Par le mariage en 1275 de l’héritière Marie de Limoges († c. 1290×1291) au duc Arthur II de Bretagne († 1312), Limoges perd sa lignée de vicomtes autochtones et devient la propriété secondaire d’une lignée princière plus puissante1. De plus, la vicomté elle-même résiste à la centralisation : c’est une région très fragmentée, morcelée entre plusieurs seigneurs de même statut et sans institutions centralisées, une situation qui ne fera qu’empirer au cours du XIVe siècle, comme on le verra2. Ces paramètres rendent donc doublement difficile d’aborder le pouvoir princier d’un point de vue exclusivement régional, mais à mon avis, c’est justement l’occasion de reconsidérer ce pouvoir d’un œil nouveau. Je m’intéresse ici à la vicomté sous le règne de Jeanne de Penthièvre († 1384) et de Charles de Blois († 1364), qui ont hérité de Limoges en 1341 et l’ont gouverné, pour le meilleur et pour le pire, pendant les quatre décennies suivantes3. La façon dont la vicomté de Limoges a été intégrée dans leurs intérêts politiques montre que sa position périphérique était bien loin de la condamner à l’insignifiance, bien qu’elle ait laissé sa marque sur l’exercice et la conceptualisation du pouvoir dans la région. Cette thématique nous permettra d’aborder divers questionnements relatifs à l’autorité absente, au partage du pouvoir et à la légitimité politique, entre autres4 ; ces thèmes mettront en valeur le dynamisme du gouvernement princier à cette époque.

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• Graham-Goering, Erika (2025). Gendered Reputations and Aristocratic Partnership : Re-Presenting the Breton Civil War from the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries. Arc Humanities Press (Arc). ISBN 9781802703603. doi: https:/library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/104456. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Medieval rulership is increasingly understood as the exercise of shared power, and nowhere was this partnership more evident than between married couples. The study of reputation provides a new way of assessing how the expectations of martial lordship adapted to this joint authority. This book examines the messy legacies of Jeanne de Penthièvre and Charles de Blois, duchess and duke of Brittany, and their fight to claim the ducal title at the start of the Hundred Years’ War. Their story was retold across a prolonged period of political turbulence by successive generations of narrators, who justified legitimate leadership according to disparate standards of sanctity, chivalry, and dynasty. This process shows how the gendering of one reputation influenced the gendering of the other, and how aristocratic attitudes towards violent conflict worked through positive and negative models for both the women and the men in charge.

• Graham-Goering, Erika; Meulen, Jim van der & Buylaert, Frederik (2025). Lordship and the Decentralized State in Late Medieval Europe. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197267844. 316 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Lordship and the Decentralized State in Late Medieval Europe rethinks the rise of modern European states as a process of decentralization. The idea that states made lordships obsolete is challenged by showing how the distribution of authority among local lords reinforced the development of new political systems. The origins of modern European states are often traced back to the expansion of royal and princely authority in the late Middle Ages, transforming scattered power structures into centralized governments. Lordship and the Decentralized State in Late Medieval Europe rethinks state formation as a process of decentralization, exploring how these governments willingly left power to lesser political players. It challenges the assumption that the rise of states made lordship obsolete, showing instead how distributing authority among local lords reinforced the development of new political systems. The contributors tackle this fresh perspective on lordship and state formation from two complementary angles. Detailed snapshots of lordship in France and the Low Countries assess the political significance of different aspects of lordly power. Historiographical essays discuss frameworks for understanding relationships between lordship and the state in contexts across Europe. These comparative perspectives establish an innovative approach to a key question in political history.

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