1988/05/19 by Raoul van Caenegem · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Classical Antiquity Studies #Classical Philosophy and Thought #Government (linguistics) #Law #Political science #Law and economics #Sociology #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.1017/chol9780521243247.011
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The student of political action and thought from the Carolingian age to the 'renaissance of the twelfth century' will naturally concentrate on the development of monarchy and of feudalism. It is, after all, in this period that the 'feudal monarchy' – to use a phrase given wide circulation by Petit-Dutaillis' classic work – is said to have flourished. The first part of this chapter will therefore seek to unravel the main lines of development in the monarchy built by the Carolingians in the eighth and ninth centuries. This underwent an eclipse verging on total collapse during the tenth and eleventh centuries, and was followed in the twelfth by a number of successors, the direct ancestors of the national states of modern Europe. The second and third parts of what follows will deal with manorialism and feudalism respectively, with the aim of establishing their role and importance in this period.