![]() ![]() HÉLÈNE DÉBAX: ‘L’Aristocratie languedocienne et la société féodale: Le témoignage des sources (Midi de la France: XIe et XIIe siècles)’ SUSAN REYNOLDS: ‘Fiefs and Vassals after Twelve Years’īRIGITTE KASTEN: ‘Economic and Political Aspects of Leases in the Kingdom of the Franks during the Eighth and Ninth Centuries: A Contribution to the Current Debate about Feudalism’ĭOMINIQUE BARTHÉLEMY: ‘Vassaux et fiefs dans la France de l’an mil’ In addition to discussing countries that have been prominent in previous studies of feudalism such as England and France, the book also includes contributions on Germany, Spain, Scandinavia, Hungary, and Romania, thus supplying a truly European perspective and a comparative view of social structure in different regions of Europe. Secondly, it provides a new geographic perspective on the subject by considering countries little discussed from a feudal perspective. It examines the character of medieval society, including questions of landholding, government, and the relationship between king and aristocracy. Firstly, it discusses the present state of research, bringing together leading representatives of the various interpretations of feudalism. While these challenges have presented a new picture of Western Europe in the so-called feudal age, one more focused than the traditional model of feudalism was, no new scholarly consensus has yet emerged. This up-to-date discussion takes as its starting point the challenge to the traditional notion of feudalism in the twenty-five years since the publication of Jean-Pierre Poly and Eric Bournazel’s work on the ‘mutation féodale’ and Susan Reynolds’s attack on the very idea of a feudal society in the Middle Ages.
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