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Author: Theodore Evergates
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011-06-03
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 0812200462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheodore Evergates has assembled, translated, and annotated some two hundred documents from the country of Champagne into a sourcebook that focuses on the political, economic, and legal workings of a feudal society, uncovering the details of private life and social history that are embedded in the official records.
Author: Rodney Howard Hilton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-05-04
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780521484565
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Joan Evans
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Constance Brittain Bouchard
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780801485480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval society was dominated by its knights and nobles. The literature created in medieval Europe was primarily a literature of knightly deeds, and the modern imagination has also been captured by these leaders and warriors. This book explores the nature of the nobility, focusing on France in the High Middle Ages (11th-13th centuries). Constance Brittain Bouchard examines their families; their relationships with peasants, townspeople, and clerics; and the images of them fashioned in medieval literary texts. She incorporates throughout a consideration of noble women and the nobility's attitude toward women. Research in the last two generations has modified and expanded modern understanding of who knights and nobles were; how they used authority, war, and law; and what position they held within the broader society. Even the concepts of feudalism, courtly love, and chivalry, once thought to be self-evident aspects of medieval society, have been seriously questioned. Bouchard presents bold new interpretations of medieval literature as both reflecting and criticizing the role of the nobility and their behavior. She offers the first synthesis of this scholarship in accessible form, inviting general readers as well as students and professional scholars to a new understanding of aristocratic role and function.
Author: Constance Brittain Bouchard
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1998-03-30
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1501713299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval society was dominated by its knights and nobles. The literature created in medieval Europe was primarily a literature of knightly deeds, and the modern imagination has also been captured by these leaders and warriors. This book explores the nature of the nobility, focusing on France in the High Middle Ages (11th-13th centuries). Constance Brittain Bouchard examines their families; their relationships with peasants, townspeople, and clerics; and the images of them fashioned in medieval literary texts. She incorporates throughout a consideration of noble women and the nobility's attitude toward women.Research in the last two generations has modified and expanded modern understanding of who knights and nobles were; how they used authority, war, and law; and what position they held within the broader society. Even the concepts of feudalism, courtly love, and chivalry, once thought to be self-evident aspects of medieval society, have been seriously questioned. Bouchard presents bold new interpretations of medieval literature as both reflecting and criticizing the role of the nobility and their behavior. She offers the first synthesis of this scholarship in accessible form, inviting general readers as well as students and professional scholars to a new understanding of aristocratic role and function.
Author: Guibert (Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy)
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author gives a unique picture of life and northwestern France at the turn of the twelfth century. He shows not only the glories but also the tensions of this transitional age, which gave birth to the reform of the Church, to new intellectual and spiritual movements, and to far-reaching social and economic developments, but which at the same time saw growing resistance to the established authority of the Church and feudal aristocracy, the turbulence of the rising urban classes, and the first stirrings of doubt with regard to many traditional beliefs. [Back cover].
Author: Marc Bloch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-16
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13: 1317677560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarc 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 chivalry, family relations, political and legal institutions, and the church. For Bloch history was a process of constant movement and evolution and he describes throughout the slow process by which feudal societies turned into what would become nation states. A tour de force of historical writing, Feudal Society is essential reading for anyone interested in both Western Europe’s past and present. With a new foreword by Geoffrey Koziol
Author: Hunt Janin
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780786418411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the types of justice administered in medieval times, how geography and religion shaped it, and its legacy in modern times.
Author: Marc Bloch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 499
ISBN-13: 113495588X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeudal Society discusses the economic and social conditions in which feudalism developed providing a deep understanding of the processes at work in medieval Europe
Author: Dominique Barthélemy
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780801475603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDominique Barthélemy presents a sharply revisionist account of the history of France around the year 1000, challenging the traditional view that France underwent a kind of revolution at the millennium which ushered in feudalism.
