Feudal society
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Feudal society
(Routledge classics)
Routledge, 2014
- : pbk
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Société féodale
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
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Note
"First published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd in paperback in 1965 in two volumes"--T.p. verso
Translated from the French
This edition of this translation originally published: 1962
Published for the first time in English in one volume in Routledge classics
Includes bibliographical references (p. [476]-521) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Marc Bloch said that his goal in writing Feudal Society was to go beyond the technical study a medievalist would typically write and 'dismantle a social structure.' In this outstanding and monumental work, which has introduced generations of students and historians to the feudal period, Bloch treats feudalism as living, breathing force in Western Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth century. At its heart lies a magisterial account of relations of lord and vassal, and the origins of the nature of the fief, brought to life through compelling accounts of the nobility, knighthood and chivalry, family relations, political and legal institutions, and the church. For Bloch history was a process of constant movement and evolution and he describes throughout the slow process by which feudal societies turned into what would become nation states. A tour de force of historical writing, Feudal Society is essential reading for anyone interested in both Western Europe's past and present.
With a new foreword by Geoffrey Koziol
Table of Contents
Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition. Introduction: Gerneral scope of the Enquiry. Part One: The Environment - The Last Invasions. i. Moslems and Hungarians. ii. The Northmen. iii. Some Consequences. Part Two: The Environment: Conditions of Life and Menatl Climate. iv. Material conditions and Economic Characteristics. v. Modes of Feeling and Thought. vi. The Folk Memory. vii. The Intellectual Renaissance in the Second Feudal Age. viii. The Foundations of Law. Part Three: The Ties Between Man and Man: Kinship. ix. The Solidarity of the Kindred Group. x.Characher and Vicissitudes of The Tie of Kinship. Part Four: The Ties between Man and Man: Vassalage and the Fief. xi. Vassal Homage. xii. The Feif. xiii. General Survey of Europe. xiv. The Fief Becomes The Patrimony of the Vassal. xv. The Man of Several Masters. xvi. Vassal and Lord. xvii. Tha Paradox of Vassalage. Part Five: Ties of Dependenceamong the Lower Orders of Society. xviii. The Manor. xix Servitude and Freedom. xx. Towards New Forms of Manorialism. Part Six: Social Classes. xxi. The Nobles As A 'De Facto' Class. xxii. The Life of the Nobility. xxiii. Chivalry. xxiv. Transformation of the Nobility into a Legal Class. xxv. Class Distinctionswith the Nobility. xxvi. Clergy and Bergesses. Part Seven: Political Organization. xxvii. Judicial Instituations. xxviii. The Traditional Powers: Kingdoms and Empire. xxix. From Territorial Principalities to Castellanies. xxx. Disorder and The Efforts to Combat It. xxxi. Towards the Reconstruction of States: Natioanl Developments. Part Eight: Feudalism as a Type of Society and Its Influence. xxxii. Feudalism as a Type of Society. xxxiii. The Persistence of Eurpean Feudalism.
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