Fiefs and vassals - POD TITLE

Zusatztext The underlying thesis! sustained with verve and learning! is that much early medieval evidence has been given a misleading juridical coherence ... the book should make us far more sensitive both to vocabulary and to our own preconceptions. Informationen zum Autor Susan Reynolds is Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She is the author of An Introduction to the History of English Medieval Towns (OUP, 1977; CPB 1982), and Kingdoms and Communities in Western Europe 900-1300 (OUP, 1984; CPB 1986). She lives in London SW. Klappentext Fiefs and Vassals sets out to change 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 that they provide a bad guide to the realities of medieval society. Zusammenfassung Fiefs and Vassals has revolutionized the way we think of the Middle Ages. It offers a fundamental challenge to orthodox conceptions of feudalism and overturns centuries of misconceptions about the nature of medieval social relations.

Product details

• Authors: Reynolds, Susan Reynolds
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.1994
• EAN: 9780198206484
• ISBN: 978-0-19-820648-4
• No. of pages: 556
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 233 mm x 34 mm
• Series: Print on demand
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Europe, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, CE period up to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Constitution: government & the state, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Constitution: government and the state