The Tyranny of a Construct: Feudalism and Historians of Medieval Europe

1974/10/01 by Elizabeth A. R. Brown · 242 citations
Arts and Humanities · #Ancient history #Classics #Computer science #Construct (python library) #Feudalism #Historical and Archaeological Studies #History #Law #Medieval European History and Architecture #Philosophy #Political science #Politics

paper · doi:10.2307/1869563

published in The American Historical Review 79(4), 1063 (Oxford University Press)

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