![]() Here is Bloch's 1940 characterization of feudalism:Ī subject peasantry widespread use of the service tenement (i.e. ![]() In the following century Marc Bloch’s historical writings were primarily focused on “feudalism”, including both the political arrangements of the system and the agrarian relations that the period embraced. Marx treated feudalism as the central social formation, the mode of production, of the Middle Ages. One topic in particular that is of interest to anyone with even a passing interest in medieval social history is the question of “feudalism”. His two books, The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000 (2009) and Medieval Europe (2016), are rich and intriguing accounts of the heterogeneous and diverse histories that the period encompasses. ![]() Chris Wickham is perhaps Britain’s leading historian of European history between the end of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance. ![]()
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