The Middle Ages Without Feudalism

Author : Susan Reynolds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351219044

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The Middle Ages without Feudalism by Susan Reynolds Pdf

This volume brings together articles (including two hitherto unpublished pieces) that Susan Reynolds has written since the publication of her Fiefs and Vassals (1994).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 : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0860784665

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The Middle Ages Without Feudalism by Susan Reynolds Pdf

Author : Susan Reynolds
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 9780198206484

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Fiefs and Vassals by Susan Reynolds Pdf

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
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1985-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826427380

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Class Conflict and the Crisis of Feudalism by Rodney Hilton Pdf

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
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778713458

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Medieval Society by Kay Eastwood Pdf

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 : Rodney Howard Hilton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521484561

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English and French Towns in Feudal Society by Rodney Howard Hilton Pdf

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 : Sverre Bagge,Michael H. Gelting,Thomas Lindkvist
Publisher : Brepols Pub
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 250353158X

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Feudalism by Sverre Bagge,Michael H. Gelting,Thomas Lindkvist Pdf

This up-to-date discussion takes as its starting point the challenge to the traditional notion of feudalism in the twenty-five years since the publication of Jean-Pierre Poly and Eric Bournazel's work on the 'mutation feodale' and Susan Reynolds's attack on the very idea of a feudal society in the Middle Ages. While these challenges have presented a new picture of Western Europe in the so-called feudal age, one more focused than the traditional model of feudalism was, no new scholarly consensus has yet emerged. The volume has two objectives. Firstly, it discusses the present state of research, bringing together leading representatives of the various interpretations of feudalism. It examines the character of medieval society, including questions of landholding, government, and the relationship between king and aristocracy. Secondly, it provides a new geographic perspective on the subject by considering countries little discussed from a feudal perspective. In addition to discussing countries that have been prominent in previous studies of feudalism such as England and France, the book also includes contributions on Germany, Spain, Scandinavia, Hungary, and Romania, thus supplying a truly European perspective and a comparative view of social structure in different regions of Europe.

Author : Vladimir Shlapentokh,Joshua Woods
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271037813

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Feudal America by Vladimir Shlapentokh,Joshua Woods Pdf

"Uses a feudal model to analyze contemporary American society, comparing its essential characteristics to those of medieval European societies"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Pliny O'Brian
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502606822

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Feudalism in Medieval Europe by Pliny O'Brian Pdf

Legends have been written about it, films have been made, but what really happened during the Middle Ages? Learn about feudalism, popes, leaders, and wars in this informative book.

Author : David Herlihy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1971-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349002535

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The History of Feudalism by David Herlihy Pdf

Author : Carl Stephenson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : History
ISBN : 0801490138

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Mediaeval Feudalism by Carl Stephenson Pdf

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 : Mercedes Padrino Anderson,Mercedes Padrino
Publisher : Gareth Stevens
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0836858948

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Feudalism and Village Life in the Middle Ages by Mercedes Padrino Anderson,Mercedes Padrino Pdf

"Find out how medieval society was organized, who paid loyalty to whom, and who had responsibilities to whom"--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Guy Fourquin
Publisher : New York : Pica Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005296541

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Lordship and Feudalism in the Middle Ages by Guy Fourquin Pdf

Author : Walter Ullmann
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421433981

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The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages by Walter Ullmann Pdf

Originally published in 1966. The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages, based on three guest lectures given at Johns Hopkins University in 1965, explores the place of the individual in medieval European society. Looking at legal sources and political ideology of the era, Ullmann concludes that, for most of the Middle Ages, the individual was defined as a subject rather than a citizen, but the modern concept of citizenship gradually supplanted the subject model from the late Middle Ages onward. Ullmann lays out the theological basis of the political theory that cast the medieval individual as an inferior, abstract subject. The individual citizen who emerged during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, by contrast, was an autonomous participant in affairs of state. Several intellectual trends made this humanistic conception of the individual possible, among them the rehabilitation of vernacular writing during the thirteenth century and the growing interest in nature, natural philosophy, and natural law. However, Ullmann points to feudalism as the single most important medieval institution that laid the groundwork for the emergence of the modern citizen.

Author : Kathleen Davis
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812207415

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Periodization and Sovereignty by Kathleen Davis Pdf

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.