History of Feudalism

Informationen zum Autor By David Herlihy Klappentext Editor David Herlihy gives examples of the principal types of documents that historians use in their investigations of feudal society. These include not only laws and legal commentaries, private charters and administrative records, but also selections from chronicles, saints' lives, sermons, liturgical works, and imaginative literature. Together these diverse sources illustrate in concrete and human terms the relationships between men and women, governments and their people, which were at the heart of the feudal system. Most of the documents have been newly translated. Zusammenfassung Presents examples of the principal types of records which historians use in their investigations of feudal society. This book includes not only laws and legal commentaries, private charters and administrative records, but also selections from chronicles, saints' lives, sermons, liturgical works, and imaginative literature.

Product details

• Authors: David Herlihy, Herlihy David
• Assisted by: David Herlihy (Editor)
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.09.1998
• EAN: 9781573922814
• ISBN: 978-1-57392-281-4
• No. of pages: 390
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History: specific events & topics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Political structure & processes, History: specific events and topics, Land Rights, Human rights, civil rights, Political structure and processes