<Articles>An Essay on the Development of English Feudalism

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  • <論説>イギリス封建制展開への試論
  • イギリス封建制展開への試論
  • イギリス ホウケンセイ テンカイ エ ノ シロン

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In so far as our studies in Western feudalism are concerned, no attempt has been made to clarify its contractual side though those recent years witnessed so many contributions to this typically medieval system. But feudalism as we understand it is par excellence a complex of private contracts between lord and man and an emphasis must also be laid on this side when we describe the feudal development in England though the monarchical power was stronger from the beginning, exerting more or less influences on English feudalism. Before and after the Norman Conquest the feudal society developed through the endowment of fief, the Verdinglichung of feudal contract, and culminated in the status-organized society under the administrative initiatives of the Norman and Angevin kings. At the same time, however, it is important to notice that the full development of such a society tended to be immobilized, till the status consciousness retreated in the turmoil of bastard feudalism in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Lastly the bastard feudalism with its confusion and unswerving localism was overcome by the constitutional development of the Commons in the same period, especially in the fifteenth century.

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  • 史林

    史林 54 (5), 675-700, 1971-09-01

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

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