Establishing Bonds: Fiefs, Homage, and Other Means to Create Trust
Gerd Althoff
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.
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