Fiefs and Vassals The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted

Name: Fiefs and Vassals The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted
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ISBN: 9780198206484

ISBN-10: 0198206488

ISBN-13: 9780198206484

Edition: 1996 (Reprint)

Authors: Susan Reynolds

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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 scholars from 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.

Book details

List price: $77.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/20/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 556
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

Susan Reynolds is a fellow of the Institute of Historical Research and emeritus fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She is a fellow of the British Academy.



Acknowledgements



The Problem of Feudalism



Vassalage and the Norms of Medieval Social Relations



Fiefs and Medieval Property Relations



Gaul and the Kingdom of the Franks



The Kingdom of France, 900-1100



Italy



The Kingdom of France, 1100-1300



England



The Kingdom of Germany



Conclusion


Appendix: Early Treatises on the Law of Fiefs


Index