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Beskrivning
Theodore Evergates has assembled, translated, and annotated some two hundred documents from the country of Champagne into a sourcebook that focuses on the political, economic, and legal workings of a feudal society, uncovering the details of private life and social history that are embedded in the official records.
Theodore Evergates is Professor of History at Western Maryland College. Among his books is Aristocratic Women in Medieval France, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Innehållsförteckning
List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter I. The Governance of a Feudal State Feudal Policies1. Permission to Clairvaux to acquire fiefs, ca. 11452. The count acquires a castle and grants fiefs for castleguard, 12003. The assignment of a new fief, 12014. Liege homage is imposed on a younger brother in 12015. Authorization to build a castle, 12066. An exemption to the castle policy, 12237. An allodial castle is feudalized, 12218. Confiscation of an unauthorized alienation, 12349. The repurchase of a fief, 124410. The great feudal inquest, 1249-125011. Unauthorized alienations to the church, 1250-125212. Restrictions on Templar acquisitions, 1191, 125513. Authorization to acquire feudal property, 126014. Royal taxation of alienated fiefs, 129115. Count Thibaut V taxes his feudal tenants, 1257