The Problem of Danish ‘Feudalism’: Military, Legal, and Social Change in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Michael H. Gelting
This up-to-date discussion takes as its starting point the challenge to traditional notion of feudalism in twenty-five years since publication Jean-Pierre Poly and Eric Bournazel’s work on ‘mutation féodale’ Susan Reynolds’s attack very idea a feudal society Middle Ages. While these challenges have presented new picture Western Europe so-called age, one more focused than model was, no scholarly consensus has yet emerged. The volume two objectives. Firstly, it discusses present state research, bringing together leading representatives various interpretations feudalism. It examines character medieval society, including questions landholding, government, relationship between king aristocracy. Secondly, provides geographic perspective subject by considering countries little discussed from perspective. In addition discussing that been prominent previous studies such England France, book also includes contributions Germany, Spain, Scandinavia, Hungary, Romania, thus supplying truly European comparative view social structure different regions Europe.
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