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Feudal Society, Volume 1
Feudal Society, Volume 1 by Marc Bloch
An extensive and rather academic study of feudalism from the beginning.
It opens with a discussion of the invasions they faced, and then its conditions such as issues in trade and travel, views of history, and more. It then goes in deep with feudalism itself -- the term feudal was actually derived from a legal term of the era, which did not, of course, apply to the system at the time. Vassals, the change from service being fit only for a slave as in Roman times, the terminology and its sources and mutations, the differences over centuries and across large stretches of Europe.
An extensive and rather academic study of feudalism from the beginning.
It opens with a discussion of the invasions they faced, and then its conditions such as issues in trade and travel, views of history, and more. It then goes in deep with feudalism itself -- the term feudal was actually derived from a legal term of the era, which did not, of course, apply to the system at the time. Vassals, the change from service being fit only for a slave as in Roman times, the terminology and its sources and mutations, the differences over centuries and across large stretches of Europe.