The Aristocracy of Champagne in the Mid-Thirteenth Century: A Quantitative Description
Theodore Evergates
The Aristocracy of Champagne in the Mid-Thirteenth Century: A Quantitative Description Quantification is one several techniques employed by historians past two decades to give increasing precision our understanding French feudal society, but its major results have been limited as yet rough measurements survival aristocracy and relative levels fief incomes.1 Comparisons total numbers aristocratic families periods MSconnais, Namur, Flanders demonstrated essential continuity a social group eleventh thirteenth centuries.2 In century, however, appear unstable: Forez third thirteenth-century disappeared next century because an average lineage lasted only three six generations, while Picardy quarter 190 survived I290.3 An analysis incomes has possible
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