Lordship in France: 500–1500
James L. Goldsmith
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien. Lordship in France, 500-1500 presents a new interpretation of lordship medieval France based on recent, ground-breaking research the Merovingian, Carolingian and Capetian eras France. In standard interpretation, emerged around year 1000, when landed magnates armed adventurers usurped public authority from collapsing state. This book argues instead that roughly 500 hundred years earlier with disintegration Roman Empire. Politically socially, expressed collegial ruling kings aristocrats, not failed centralized Institutionally, was essentially fiscal apparatus perpetuated remnants late tax system.