Feudal Society

Feudal Society is the masterpiece of one of the greatest historians of the century. Marc Bloch's supreme achievement was to recreate the vivid and complex world of Western Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries. For Bloch history was a living organism, and to write of it was an endless process of creative evolution and of growing understanding. The author treats feu...

(展开全部)

Feudal Society is the masterpiece of one of the greatest historians of the century. Marc Bloch's supreme achievement was to recreate the vivid and complex world of Western Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries. For Bloch history was a living organism, and to write of it was an endless process of creative evolution and of growing understanding. The author treats feudalism as a vitalising force in European society. He surveys the social and economic conditions in which feudalism developed; he sees the structures of kinship which underlay the formal relationships of vassal and overlord. For Bloch these relationships are mutual as much as coercive, the product of a dangerous and uncertain world. His insights into the lives of the nobility and the clergy and his deep understanding of the processes at work in medieval Europe, are profound and memorable.

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 3
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 5
PLATES......Page 8
· · · · · · (更多)

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 3
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 5
PLATES......Page 8
INTRODUCTORY NOTE......Page 9
PART VI Social Classes......Page 10
1 THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE ANCIENT ARISTOCRACIES OF BIRTH......Page 11
2 DIFFERENT MEANINGS OF THE WORD ‘NOBLE’ IN THE FIRST FEUDAL AGE......Page 14
3 THE NOBLE CLASS A CLASS OF LORDS......Page 16
4 THE PROFESSION OF ARMS......Page 17
1 WAR......Page 21
2 THE NOBLE AT HOME......Page 27
3 OCCUPATIONS AND DISTRACTIONS......Page 30
4 RULES OF CONDUCT......Page 35
1 DUBBING TO KNIGHTHOOD......Page 42
2 THE CODE OF CHIVALRY......Page 46
1 THE INHERITANCE OF KNIGHTHOOD AND NOBILITY......Page 50
2 THE DESCENDANTS OF KNIGHTS BECOME A PRIVILEGED CLASS......Page 55
3 THE LAW OF THE NOBLES......Page 57
4 THE EXCEPTIONAL CASE OF ENGLAND......Page 59
1 GRADATIONS OF POWER AND RANK......Page 63
2 SERJEANTS AND SERF-KNIGHTS......Page 70
1 THE ECCLESIASTICAL SOCIETY WITHIN THE FEUDAL WORLD......Page 78
2 THE BURGESSES......Page 85
PART VII Political Organization......Page 89
1 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM......Page 90
2 THE DISINTEGRATION OF JUDICIAL AUTHORITY......Page 92
3 TRIAL BY PEERS OR TRIAL BY THE LORD......Page 101
4 ON THE EDGE OF DISINTEGRATION: SURVIVALS AND NEW FACTORS......Page 102
1 GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE MONARCHIES......Page 107
2 TRADITIONS AND NATURE OF THE ROYAL POWER......Page 111
3 THE TRANSMISSION OF THE ROYAL POWER: DYNASTIC PROBLEMS......Page 115
4 THE EMPIRE......Page 121
1 THE TERRITORIAL PRINCIPALITIES......Page 125
2 COUNTIES AND CASTELLANIES......Page 133
3 THE ECCLESIASTICAL LORDSHIPS......Page 134
1 THE LIMITS OF STATE ACTION......Page 141
2 VIOLENCE AND THE LONGING FOR PEACE......Page 143
3 THE PEACE AND TRUCE OF GOD 3......Page 145
1 REASONS FOR THE RECONCENTRATION OF AUTHORITY......Page 154
2 A NEW MONARCHY: THE CAPETIANS......Page 156
3 AN ARCHAISTIC MONARCHY: GERMANY......Page 159
4 THE ANGLO-NORMAN MONARCHY: CONQUEST AND GERMANIC SURVIVALS......Page 162
5 NATIONALITIES......Page 164
PART VIII Feudalism as a Type of Society and its Influence......Page 170
1 HAS THERE BEEN MORE THAN ONE FEUDALISM?......Page 171
2 THE FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF EUROPEAN FEUDALISM......Page 173
3 A CROSS-SECTION OF COMPARATIVE HISTORY......Page 176
XXXIII THE PERSISTENCE OF EUROPEAN FEUDALISM......Page 178
2 THE WARRIOR IDEA AND THE IDEA OF CONTRACT......Page 180
PLAN OF BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 183
(2) THE LINGUISTIC EVIDENCE......Page 185
(3) HISTORIOGRAPHY......Page 186
(1) MODES OF FEELING AND THOUGHT......Page 187
(2) ‘TERRORS’ OF THE YEAR 1000......Page 188
(3) THE HUNGARIANS......Page 189
(4) THE SCANDINAVIANS......Page 190
(6) EFFECTS OF THE SCANDINAVIAN INVASIONS......Page 191
(1) ORIGINAL SOURCES......Page 192
(2) WORKS ON THE HISTORY OF LAW AND INSTITUTIONS......Page 193
(4) POLITICAL IDEAS......Page 195
(2) ECONOMIC SOLIDARITY......Page 196
(1) FEUDALISM IN GENERAL: FRANKISH ORIGINS......Page 197
(2) STUDIES OF FEUDALISM BY COUNTRIES AND REGIONS......Page 198
(3) ‘COMPANIONAGE’, VASSALAGE, AND HOMAGE......Page 200
(4) ‘PRECARIA’, ‘BENEFIT’, FIEF, AND ALLOD......Page 201
(6) PLURALITY OF LORDS AND LIEGE HOMAGE......Page 202
(2) CAVALRY TACTICS AND EQUIPMENT......Page 203
(4) CASTLES......Page 204
VIII TIES OF DEPENDENCE AMONG THE LOWER ORDERS OF SOCIETY......Page 205
(2) FRISIA AND DITHMARSCHEN......Page 206
(1) ORIGINS AND HISTORY......Page 207
(2) DUBBING TO KNIGHTHOOD: THE LITURGIES......Page 208
(5) ENNOBLEMENT......Page 209
(6) LIFE OF THE NOBLES......Page 210
XI THE CHURCH IN THE FEUDAL WORLD: THE ‘ADVOCATESHIP’......Page 211
XII JUDICIAL INSTITUTIONS......Page 212
XIII THE PEACE MOVEMENTS......Page 213
XIV THE INSTITUTION OF MONARCHY......Page 214
XV THE TERRITORIAL POWERS......Page 215
XVI NATIONALISM......Page 216
XVII FEUDALISM IN COMPARATIVE HISTORY......Page 217
SUPPLEMENT TO THE BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 218
SUPPLEMENT TO THE BIBLIOGRAPHY (1962 TO 1989)......Page 223
INDEX......Page 228
· · · · · · (收起)