Feudal Society, Volume 1 by Marc Bloch
The Growth of Ties of Dependence
Traces how, after the collapse of centralized rule in early medieval Europe, bonds of dependence—vassalage, homage, and fiefs—came to structure landholding, protection, and authority. Using legal, customary, and economic evidence, it analyzes seigneurial rights, peasant obligations, kinship, and ritual as the foundations of lordship in a predominantly rural society. It portrays feudalism as a fluid network of personal relationships rather than a fixed legal system, highlighting the emergence and consolidation of these ties between the ninth and thirteenth centuries.
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- Published
- 1939
- Nationality
- French
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- Pages
- 280-320
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- French
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- La Société féodale I
- La Société féodale, Tome I
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