This volume brings together articles (including two hitherto
unpublished pieces) that Susan Reynolds has written since the
publication of her Fiefs and Vassals (1994). There she argued that
the concepts of the fief and of vassalage, as generally understood
by historians of medieval Europe, were constructed by post-medieval
historians from the works of medieval academic lawyers and the
writers of medieval epics and romances. Six of the essays reprinted
here continue her argument that feudalism is unhelpful to
understanding medieval society, while eight more discuss other
aspects of medieval society, law, and politics which she argues
provide a better insight into the history of western Europe in the
middle ages. Three range outside the middle ages and western Europe
in considering the idea of the nation, the idea of empire, and the
problem of finding a consistent and comprehensible vocabulary for
comparative and interdisciplinary history.
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