Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted

Susan Reynolds

Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
13 June 1996
Pages
556
ISBN
9780198206484

Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted

Susan Reynolds

Fiefs and Vassals has changed our view of the medieval world. It offers a fundamental challenge to orthodox conceptions of feudalism. Susan Reynolds argues that the concepts of the fief and of vassalage, as understood by historians of medieval Europe, were constructed by post-medieval scholars from the works of medieval academic lawyers and tha they provide a bad guide to the realities of medieval society. This is a radical new examination of relations between rulers, nobles, and free men, the distillation of wide-ranging research by a leading medieval historian. It has revolutionized the way we think of the Middle Ages.

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