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Author / Creator:Bloch, Marc, 1886-1944.
Uniform title:Société féodale. English
Edition:Collector's ed.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1968, c1961.
Description:1 online resource (xxi, 499 p.) : ill.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8837840
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Notes:Translation of La société féodale.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-482) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Table of Contents:
  • Growth of ties of dependence : Moslems and Hungarians
  • Northmen
  • Some consequences and some lessons of the invasions
  • Environment conditions of life and mental climate : material conditions and economic characteristics
  • Modes of feeling and thought
  • Folk memory
  • Intellectual Renaissance in the second feudal age
  • Foundations of law
  • Ties between man and man, kinship : solidarity of the kindred group
  • Character and vicissitudes of the tie of kinship
  • Ties between man and man, vassalage and the fief : vassal homage
  • Fief
  • General survey of Europe
  • Fief becomes the patrimony of the vassal
  • Man of several masters
  • Vassal and lord
  • Paradox of vassalage
  • Ties of dependence among the lower orders of society : manor
  • Servitude and freedom
  • Towards new forms of manorialism
  • Social classes and political organization : nobles as a 'de facto' class
  • Life of the nobility
  • Chivalry
  • Transformation of the nobility into a legal class
  • Class distinctions within the nobility
  • Clergy and burgesses
  • Political organization : judicial institutions
  • Traditional powers, kingdoms and empire
  • From territorial principalities to castellanies
  • Disorder and the efforts to combat it
  • Towards the reconstruction of states, nationals developments
  • Feudalism as a type of society and its influence: Feudalism as a type of society
  • Persistence of European feudalism.