The Middle Ages Without Feudalism

Author : Susan Reynolds
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351219049
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Middle Ages without Feudalism written by Susan Reynolds and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together articles (including two hitherto unpublished pieces) that Susan Reynolds has written since the publication of her Fiefs and Vassals (1994). There she argued that the concepts of the fief and of vassalage, as generally understood by historians of medieval Europe, were constructed by post-medieval historians from the works of medieval academic lawyers and the writers of medieval epics and romances. Six of the essays reprinted here continue her argument that feudalism is unhelpful to understanding medieval society, while eight more discuss other aspects of medieval society, law, and politics which she argues provide a better insight into the history of western Europe in the Middle Ages. Three range outside the Middle Ages and western Europe in considering the idea of the nation, the idea of empire, and the problem of finding a consistent and comprehensible vocabulary for comparative and interdisciplinary history.

Author : Susan Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780860784661
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Author : Susan Reynolds
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0198206488
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fiefs and Vassals written by Susan Reynolds and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1996 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiefs and Vassals has changed our view of the medieval world. It offers a fundamental challenge to orthodox conceptions of feudalism. Susan Reynolds argues that the concepts of the fief and of vassalage, as understood by historians of medieval Europe, were constructed by post-medieval scholarsfrom the works of medieval academic lawyers and tha they provide a bad guide to the realities of medieval society.This is a radical new examination of relations between rulers, nobles, and free men, the distillation of wide-ranging research by a leading medieval historian. It has revolutionized the way we think of the Middle Ages.

Author : Rodney Hilton
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826427383
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class Conflict and the Crisis of Feudalism written by Rodney Hilton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1985-07-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conflict between landlords and peasants over the appropriation of the surplus product of the peasant holding was a prime mover in the evolution of medieval society. In this collection of essays Rodney Hilton looks at the economic context within which these conflicts took place. He seeks to explain the considerable variations in the size, composition and management of landed estates and investigates the nature of medieval urbanisation, a consequence of the development of both local commodity production and long distance trade in luxury goods. By setting the broader economic context – the nature of the peasant and landlord economies and the commercialisation of peasant production – Hilton's essays enable a thorough understanding of the relationship between landlords and peasants in medieval society.

Author : Kay Eastwood
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780778713456
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Society written by Kay Eastwood and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young readers will be captivated by this account of the daily life and social organization of people living in Europe in the Middle Ages. Medieval Society describes life under the feudal system and how kings and lords became rich while the peasants stayed poor.

Author : Vladimir Shlapentokh
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271037814
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feudal America written by Vladimir Shlapentokh and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Uses a feudal model to analyze contemporary American society, comparing its essential characteristics to those of medieval European societies"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Mercedes Padrino Anderson
Publisher : Gareth Stevens
ISBN 13 : 9780836858945
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feudalism and Village Life in the Middle Ages written by Mercedes Padrino Anderson and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2006 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Find out how medieval society was organized, who paid loyalty to whom, and who had responsibilities to whom"--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Carl Stephenson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801490132
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mediaeval Feudalism written by Carl Stephenson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1942 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives a clear and concise account of the feudal system, from its origin and growth to its decay. Also covers the principles of feudal tenure, chivalry, the military life of the nobility, and the workings of the feudal government.

Author : Rodney Howard Hilton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521484565
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English and French Towns in Feudal Society written by Rodney Howard Hilton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-05-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comparative study of the role of English and French towns in feudal society in the middle ages. In bringing together much material which dissolves old categories and simplifications in the study of medieval towns, Professor Hilton provides an important new perspective on medieval society and on the nature of feudalism. He argues that medieval towns were not, as is often thought, the harbingers of capitalism, and emphasises the way in which urban social structures fitted into, rather than challenged, feudalism.

Author : Kathleen Davis
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812207416
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Periodization and Sovereignty written by Kathleen Davis and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite all recent challenges to stage-oriented histories, the idea of a division between a "medieval" and a "modern" period has survived, even flourished, in academia. Periodization and Sovereignty demonstrates that this survival is no innocent affair. By examining periodization together with the two controversial categories of feudalism and secularization, Kathleen Davis exposes the relationship between the constitution of "the Middle Ages" and the history of sovereignty, slavery, and colonialism. This book's groundbreaking investigation of feudal historiography finds that the historical formation of "feudalism" mediated the theorization of sovereignty and a social contract, even as it provided a rationale for colonialism and facilitated the disavowal of slavery. Sovereignty is also at the heart of today's often violent struggles over secular and religious politics, and Davis traces the relationship between these struggles and the narrative of "secularization," which grounds itself in a period divide between a "modern" historical consciousness and a theologically entrapped "Middle Ages" incapable of history. This alignment of sovereignty, the secular, and the conceptualization of historical time, which relies essentially upon a medieval/modern divide, both underlies and regulates today's volatile debates over world politics. The problem of defining the limits of our most fundamental political concepts cannot be extricated, Davis argues, from the periodizing operations that constituted them, and that continue today to obscure the process by which "feudalism" and "secularization" govern the politics of time.