<Note>An Interpretation of the Development of the English Feudalism

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  • <研究ノート>イングランド封建制の発展に関する一試論
  • イングランド封建性の発展に関する一試論
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This article attempts to define that feudalism is a social custom based on the private contract between the lord and his vassal, and attempts to see the essence of feudalism in its individualism and its localism. In continent, these essences of feudalism developed into the concept of "corporate estate" distinct from the state. But in England, these essences developed, not into the concept of "an order" or "an estate", but into the concept of "the local community" or "the community of the realm". Then, we proceed to the problem of relation of the feudal lordship and the kingship, and emphasize that both the feudal lordship and the kingship had the same origin in the lordship of kin-groups, and, entering to the feudal period, the English kingship developed as the supreme arbitrator over all the feudal lords, and proceeded to take the place of the overlord of all the local communities. After all, this article tries to explain the relation between the feudal lordship and the kingship, from the standpoint of the growth of the concept of the community of the realm.

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  • 史林

    史林 52 (1), 116-134, 1969-01-01

    THE SHIGAKU KENKYUKAI (The Society of Historical Research), Kyoto University

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