Feudal SocietyRoutledge, 16 apr 2014 - 570 pagina's Marc 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 |
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Some consequences and some lessons of the invasions | |
CONDITIONS OF LIFE AND MENTAL CLIMATE | |
Modes of feeling and thought | |
The folk memory | |
The intellectual renaissance in the second feudal | |
Servitude and freedom | |
Towards new forms of manorialism | |
VOLUME II | |
Introductory note | |
PART VI | |
The nobles as a de facto class | |
The life of the nobility | |
Chivalry | |
The foundations of | |
The solidarity of the kindred group | |
Character and vicissitudes of the tie of kinship | |
PART IV | |
The fief | |
General survey of Europe | |
The fief becomes the patrimony of the vassal | |
The man of several masters | |
Vassal and lord | |
The paradox of vassalage | |
PART V | |
The manor | |
Transformation of the nobility into a legal class | |
Class distinctions within the nobility | |
Clergy and burgesses | |
POLITICAL ORGANIZATION | |
Judicial institutions | |
kingdoms and empire | |
From territorial principalities to castellanies | |
Disorder and the efforts to combat | |
national developments | |
FEUDALISM AS A TYPE OF SOCIETY AND ITS INFLUENCE | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | |