Format:
1 online resource (557 pages)
ISBN:
9780191591754
Content:
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.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- 1. The Problem of Feudalism -- 1. 1. The nature of the problem -- 1. 2. The historiography of feudalism -- 1. 3. The plan of the book -- 2. Vassalage and the Norms of Medieval Social Relations -- 2. 1. The concept of vassalage -- 2. 2. Some problems of the concept -- 2. 3. A substitute for the concept of vassalage: some medieval norms and values -- 2. 4. Conclusion -- 3. Fiefs and Medieval Property Relations -- 3. 1. The concept of the fief -- 3. 2. Ideas of property -- 3. 3. A hypothesis about property law before 1100 -- 3. 4. A hypothesis about property law after 1100 -- 3. 5. Conclusion -- 4. Gaul and the Kingdom of the Franks -- 4. 1. The Merovingian period -- 4. 2. The Carolingians: vassi and benefices -- 4. 3. Full property under the Carolingians -- 4. 4. Counts and the problem of the end of the empire -- 5. The Kingdom of France, 900-1100 -- 5. 1. The problems -- 5. 2. Government and political relations -- 5. 3. Benefices and the lands of counts and churches -- 5. 4. Other full property: alods and inheritances -- 5. 5 Fiefs -- 5. 6. Conclusion -- 6. Italy -- 6. 1. The problems -- 6. 2. Before 774: the Lombard kingdom -- 6. 3. Political relations and government from 774 to the twelfth century -- 6. 4. Benefices and fiefs, 774-1037 -- 6. 5. Benefices and fiefs, 1037 to the early twelfth century -- 6. 6. Full property from 774 to the twelfth century -- 6. 7. The eleventh-century papacy: fiefs and oaths of fidelity -- 6. 8. The beginning of academic law -- 6. 9. Politics and the new law in the twelfth century -- 6. 10. The Norman south -- 6. 11. Professional law and government -- 6. 12. Conclusion -- 7. The Kingdom of France, 1100-1300 -- 7. 1. The transition to professional law and government -- 7. 2. Words and concepts: the twelfth century -- 7. 3. Words and concepts: the thirteenth century.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198206484
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780198206484
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1183111
Bookmarklink
