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Informationen zum Autor Theodore Evergates is Professor of History at Western Maryland College. Among his books is Aristocratic Women in Medieval France, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Klappentext Theodore 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. Zusammenfassung Theodore 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter I. The Governance of a Feudal State Feudal Policies 1. Permission to Clairvaux to acquire fiefs, ca. 1145 2. The count acquires a castle and grants fiefs for castleguard, 1200 3. The assignment of a new fief, 1201 4. Liege homage is imposed on a younger brother in 1201 5. Authorization to build a castle, 1206 6. An exemption to the castle policy, 1223 7. An allodial castle is feudalized, 1221 8. Confiscation of an unauthorized alienation, 1234 9. The repurchase of a fief, 1244 10. The great feudal inquest, 1249-1250 11. Unauthorized alienations to the church, 1250-1252 12. Restrictions on Templar acquisitions, 1191, 1255 13. Authorization to acquire feudal property, 1260 14. Royal taxation of alienated fiefs, 1291 15. Count Thibaut V taxes his feudal tenants, 1257
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Theodore Evergates is Professor of History at Western Maryland College. Among his books is Aristocratic Women in Medieval France, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
