Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted
- ISBN-10
- 0191591750
- ISBN-13
- 9780191591754
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 556
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994-09-15
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press
- Author
- Susan Reynolds
Description
Fiefs and Vassals has changed 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 tha they provide a bad guide to the realities of medieval society. This is a radical new examination of relations between rulers, nobles, and free men, the distillation of wide-ranging research by a leading medieval historian. It has revolutionized the way we think of the Middle Ages.
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