The Feudal Mutation: Military and Economic Transformations of the Ethnosphere in the Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries
R.J. Barendse
This article argues that much of the comparative literature on feudalism suffers from two problems: first, a mistaken identification what constitutes European feudalism, in particular an emphasis as merger Roman and Germanic elements well stress manorial production; second, focus ontological concepts, is, concepts existing outside history not subject to change significance course history, thus state law. makes case if we shed those can discern many similar (and, it is contended, because they are linked rather than being merely comparable) changes ethnosphere tenth thirteenth centuries, Asian, European, African complex class societies based agrarian production nomadic for market, primarily context nuclear families.
Journal of World History