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feudalism: a standalone construct

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Medieval history

the label historians used for medieval lord-vassal and fief relations, criticized here as an artificial construct that distorts the evidence.

In medieval history, feudalism refers to the label historians used for medieval lord-vassal and fief relations, criticized here as an artificial construct that distorts the evidence. This meaning comes from Brown (1974) in The American Historical Review.[1]

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References

Brown, E. A. R. (1974). The Tyranny of a Construct: Feudalism and Historians of Medieval Europe. The American Historical Review, 79(4), 1063. https://doi.org/10.2307/1869563

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