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Fiefs and vassals : the medieval evidence reinterpreted /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York, N.Y. :
Oxford University Press,
1994.
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 w. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 544 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-526) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198204589 0198204582 9780191591754 0191591750 9786610914104 6610914109 |