Amazing. Fascinating. Seems to read smoother then early centuries, but i got lost in the byzantine Shenanigans. Worried about the author. Do you have all these people living in your head?
Thank you for this, very interesting, all of it. The only aspect of which I had any prior knowledge is feudalism - and that mainly from Alan MacFarlane’s Origins of English Infividualism. He characterised English feudalism as being based on “contract not status” (it was the other way round on the continent), and was primarily a way of holding land. As you say, in return for working the Lord’s land two days a week (a sort of tax rate between 30 and 40 per cent, not unlike today). Lots of customary rights, as well, overlooked by the Blackadder school of history. So much for me, thank you for your much better informed and resourced accounts!
Amazing. Fascinating. Seems to read smoother then early centuries, but i got lost in the byzantine Shenanigans. Worried about the author. Do you have all these people living in your head?
It's just impressive.
Thank you for this, very interesting, all of it. The only aspect of which I had any prior knowledge is feudalism - and that mainly from Alan MacFarlane’s Origins of English Infividualism. He characterised English feudalism as being based on “contract not status” (it was the other way round on the continent), and was primarily a way of holding land. As you say, in return for working the Lord’s land two days a week (a sort of tax rate between 30 and 40 per cent, not unlike today). Lots of customary rights, as well, overlooked by the Blackadder school of history. So much for me, thank you for your much better informed and resourced accounts!