Goldsmith, James Lowth
Lordship in France, 500-1500

Based on research on the Merovingian, Carolingian and Capetian eras, this book argues that lordship emerged with the disintegration of the Roman Empire. Politically and socially, lordship expressed the collegial ruling authority of kings and aristocrats, not the usurped public authority of a failed centralized state. Institutionally, lordship was essentially a fiscal apparatus that perpetuated remnants of the late Roman tax system. XV,529 Seiten, gebunden (Peter Lang Verlag 2003) Mängelexemplar