Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 10
 1. 1. The nature of the problem......Page 14
 1. 2. The historiography of feudalism......Page 16
 1. 3. The plan of the book......Page 27
 2. 1. The concept of vassalage......Page 30
 2. 2. Some problems of the concept......Page 35
 2. 3. A substitute for the concept of vassalage: some medieval norms and values......Page 47
 2. 4. Conclusion......Page 59
 3. 1. The concept of the fief......Page 61
 3. 2. Ideas of property......Page 66
 3. 3. A hypothesis about property law before 1100......Page 70
 3. 4. A hypothesis about property law after 1100......Page 77
 3. 5. Conclusion......Page 86
 4. 1. The Merovingian period......Page 88
 4. 2. The Carolingians: vassi and benefices......Page 97
 4. 3. Full property under the Carolingians......Page 118
 4. 4. Counts and the problem of the end of the empire......Page 124
 5. 1. The problems......Page 128
 5. 2. Government and political relations......Page 137
 5. 3. Benefices and the lands of counts and churches......Page 146
 5. 4. Other full property: alods and inheritances......Page 158
 5. 5 Fiefs......Page 173
 5. 6. Conclusion......Page 193
 6. 1. The problems......Page 194
 6. 2. Before 774: the Lombard kingdom......Page 195
 6. 3. Political relations and government from 774 to the twelfth century......Page 202
 6. 4. Benefices and fiefs, 774—1037......Page 205
 6. 5. Benefices and fiefs, 1037 to the early twelfth century......Page 212
 6. 6. Full property from 774 to the twelfth century......Page 220
 6. 7. The eleventh-century papacy: fiefs and oaths of fidelity......Page 223
 6. 8. The beginning of academic law......Page 228
 6. 9. Politics and the new law in the twelfth century......Page 244
 6. 10. The Norman south......Page 253
 6. 11. Professional law and government......Page 262
 6. 12. Conclusion......Page 269
 7. 1. The transition to professional law and government......Page 271
 7. 2. Words and concepts: the twelfth century......Page 273
 7. 3. Words and concepts: the thirteenth century......Page 289
 7. 4. Words and concepts: the feudal hierarchy......Page 301
 7. 5. The rights and obligations of property......Page 308
 7. 6. Conclusion......Page 333
 8. 1. The problems......Page 336
 8. 2. Before the mid tenth century......Page 337
 8. 3. From the mid tenth century to 1066......Page 345
 8. 4. The Norman Conquest......Page 355
 8. 5. Words and concepts, 1100—1300......Page 366
 8. 6. The obligations of property, 1100—1300......Page 374
 8. 7. The rights of property, 1100—1300......Page 387
 8. 8. English law and feudal law......Page 399
 8. 9. Conclusion......Page 406
 9. 1. The problems......Page 409
 9. 2. Before 911......Page 411
 9. 3. Government and jurisdiction from 911 to the early twelfth century......Page 416
 9. 4. Full property from 911 to the early twelfth century......Page 428
 9. 5. Benefices and fiefs from 911 to the early twelfth century......Page 441
 9. 6. Words, concepts, and law : the twelfth century......Page 453
 9. 7. Words, concepts, and law : the thirteenth century......Page 464
 9. 8. The rights and obligations of property, 1100—1300......Page 474
 9. 9. Conclusion......Page 485
10. Conclusion......Page 488
Appendix: Early treatises on the law of fiefs......Page 496
List of works cited......Page 500
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