Feudalism

Author: F. L. Ganshof
Publisher: Harper Torchbooks, 1961
Condition: Softcover, foxing on cover and back, annotations on first half of the book, interior clean
"Professor Ganshof's book answers the prayer of every teacher and student of medieval history for a lucid, concise and authoritative exposition of feudal institutions. Its author is one of the leading authorities in western Europe on Feudalism and its translator a leading English expert on the early Middle Ages. Professor Ganshof avoided the task, attempted by Marc Bloch, of describing the whole society of the Feudal period and confined himself to those institutionalized relationships of lord and man, prevalent in western Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth century, which are commonly included in the narrower definition of Feudalism. the result is a summary of current doctrine which could scarecly be bettered . . . is quite the best on its subject that money can buy." --George Holmes, The Cambridge Review