The Feudal Transformation: 900-1200A magisterial tome first published in French in 1980. Not a chronological narrative, but a broad and detailed examination of the institutional, political, social, and mental structures of French feudal society. The extensive bibliography has been revised for the English reader. Annotation copyright" |
Common terms and phrases
abbey abbot Adalbero allodialists allods ancient Anjou appears Aquitaine archbishop aristocracy Auvergne banal lordship bannum become benefice bishops Bloch Bonnassie Burgundian Burgundy Cambrai Carolingian castellans castle Catalogne 72 Catalonia Cathars Charlemagne Chartres Church clerics Cluniac Cluny count Dhondt documents duke eleventh century entourage estates fealty feudal fief Flanders Fossier France Frankish Fulbert Fulbert of Chartres Ganshof Garaud Génicot Georges Duby Gerald of Aurillac Gerard Guibert heresy heretics homage king knights land Laon legend Lemarignier lord Lorraine Mâcon magnates Magnou-Nortier Marc Bloch master Midi milites monarchy monks Moyen Age ninth nobility noble Normandy oath Odo of Cluny origins Orleans Paris peace peasants period Poitiers Poitou Poly princes Provence 87 Rheims ritual Roman royal saint Saint-Denis seigneury Septimania serfs siècle social société southern structures tenth century texts tion Toulouse trois ordres 616 truce twelfth century vassal vassalage vassi Vita word