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Lordship in the County of Maine, c.890-1160 (Hardcover, New)
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Lordship in the County of Maine, c.890-1160 (Hardcover, New)
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A study of the operation of lordship in western France, emphasising
its continuity, rather than recent suggestions of major changes in
practice. The social and political meaning of lordship in western
France in the tenth and eleventh centuries is the focus of this
study. It analyses the development and features of lordship as it
was practised and experienced in Maine and the surrounding regions
of France, emphasizing the social logic of lordship (why it worked
as it did, and how it was socially justifiable and even necessary)
and the role of honour and charisma in shaping lordship
relationships. The vision and chronology of tenth- and
eleventh-century lordship on offer here departs from the model of
"feudal mutation", and emphasizes two major themes - the centrality
of intangible, charismatic elements of honor, prestige
andacclamation, and the lack of foundation for any notion of
"feudal transformation": while acknowledging changes in the
geography of power across the tenth and eleventh centuries, the
argument insists that the practicalities of thepractice of lordship
remained essentially the same between 890 and 1160. RICHARD E.
BARTON is assistant Professor of History, University of North
Carolina at Greensboro.
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