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1 online resource (571 pages) |
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Routledge Classics |
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Routledge classics
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition; Introduction: General Scope of the Inquiry; Volume I; Part I -- The Environment: The Last Invasions; I Moslems and Hungarians; II The Northmen; III Some consequences and some lessons of the invasions; Part II -- The Environment: Conditions of Life and Mental Climate; IV Material conditions and economic characteristics; V Modes of feeling and thought; VI The folk memory; VII The intellectual renaissance in the second feudal age; VIII The foundations of law |
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Part III -- The Ties between Man and Man: KinshipIX The solidarity of the kindred group; X Character and vicissitudes of the tie of kinship; Part IV -- The Ties between Man and Man: Vassalage and the Fief; XI Vassal homage; XII The fief; XIII General survey of Europe; XIV The fief becomes the patrimony of the vassal; XV The man of several masters; XVI Vassal and lord; XVII The paradox of vassalage; Part V -- Ties of Dependence among the Lower Orders of Society; XVIII The manor; XIX Servitude and freedom; XX Towards new forms of manorialism; Volume II; Introductory note; Part VI -- Social Classes |
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XXI The nobles as a de facto classXXII The life of the nobility; XXIII Chivalry; XXIV Transformation of the nobility into a legal class; XXV Class distinctions within the nobility; XXVI Clergy and burgesses; Part VII -- Political Organization; XXVII Judicial institutions; XXVIII The traditional powers: kingdoms and empire; XXIX From territorial principalities to castellanies; XXX Disorder and the efforts to combat it; XXXI Towards the reconstruction of states: national developments; Part VIII -- Feudalism as a Type of Society and its Influence; XXXII Feudalism as a type of society |
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XXXIII The persistence of European feudalismBibliography; Supplement to the Bibliography 1962 to 1989; Index |
| Summary |
Marc Bloch said that his goal in writing Feudal Society was to go beyond the technical study a medievalist would typically write and 'dismantle a social structure.' In this outstanding and monumental work, which has introduced generations of students and historians to the feudal period, Bloch treats feudalism as living, breathing force in Western Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth century. At its heart lies a magisterial account of relations of lord and vassal, and the origins of the nature of the fief, brought to life through compelling accounts of the nobility, knighthood and |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Feudalism.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Feudalism
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Europe -- History -- 476-1492. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045690
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317677574 |
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1317677579 |
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