Bastard Feudalism Revised

Coss, Peter

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“…29 Peter Coss in a 1989 article and a subsequent debate with David Crouch and D. A. Carpenter in the journal Past & Present, challenged McFarlane's framework in a more fundamental manner, finding its origins in the response of English magnates in the late 1250s and early 1260s to the success of Angevin legal reforms. 30 The victory of royal over honourial justice forged a more direct relationship between free subject and the crown and between central government and the society of the localities, which threatened to undermine the ability of the great lords to dominate their lesser neighbors. The barons of the weak King Henry III responded to this latent threat by penetrating and subverting the administration and the courts, retaining local officials, packing commissions of oyer and terminer with their retainers, and, in general, using money and patronage to bind the local gentry to them and dominate local society.…”

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“…Most radically, Coss, whose definition of feudal society as 'a total social formation' owes more to Marc Bloch (see below) than Ganshof, 31 regarded the 'invasion and subversion of law courts and offices of administration', rather than the replacement of the tenurial bond with the cash nexus, as lying at the very heart of bastard feudalism. 32 Coss and his critics in the Past & Present debate, David Crouch and D. A. Carptenter, ended up generally agreeing about the early antecedents for bastard feudalism, but, ironically, disagreeing on what 'bastard feudalism' was.…”

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The Historiography of a Construct: “Feudalism” and the Medieval Historian

Abels

2009

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Between 1974 and 1994, two influential critiques of feudalism were published, an article in 1974 by Elizabeth A. R. Brown and a book by Susan Reynolds in 1994, that crystallized doubts about the construct of feudalism harbored by many historians of the Middle Ages. Over the last few years textbooks have begun to reflect the new consensus. Medieval historians responsible for chapters on the Middle Ages in Western Civilization and World Civilization textbooks now shy away from the term ‘feudalism’. This reticence is less evident in civilization textbooks lacking a medievalist among the collaborators. In several of these we still find the ‘feudal Middle Ages’ presented without apology, as well as comparisons drawn between Japanese, Chinese, and medieval Western feudalisms. Whether or not the assigned textbook mentions ‘feudalism’, most Western civilization instructors probably continue to use the term because it is familiar to them and to their students. This article presents an overview of the historiography of one of the key concepts for the study of the Middle Ages, and an assessment of where the state of the question now stands. The author concludes that, although the critique of feudalism is powerful and necessary, the pendulum is threatening to swing too far in the other direction, away from the vertical ties and power relations that once dominated discussions of medieval politics and society, and toward a new paradigm of horizontal bonds, consensus making, and community.

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The Historiography of a Construct: “Feudalism” and the Medieval Historian

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2009

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“…Deve-se destacar que Roland Mousnier abandona, na sequência de seus trabalhos, as análises do absolutismo em termos de lutas de classes.30 Para a revolução capitalista, verMousnier (1965, p. 95-96 e p. 106).31 A interrogação sobre o interesse de um tal questionamento já foi formulada porKossmann (1976. p. 3-17).32 Ver tambémAnderson (1978). RobertMandrou (1965) desvela nisso os signos de uma nova Europa em gestação.33 É o que leva Bruce McFarlane (1981) a falar de "feudalidade bastarda"; ver aindaCoss (1989).…”

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Absolutismo: um conceito não substituído

Cosandey

2023

Topoi (Rio J.)

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Ainda hoje, a historiografi a do absolutismo (na França, mas não exclusivamente) é fortemente marcada por uma oposição entre o "absolutismo teórico" e o "absolutismo prático". Para alguns, a existência dessa teoria do poder monárquico não deixa nenhuma dúvida, como atestado pelos escritos dos jurisconsultos dos quais o mais célebre, Cardin Le Bret, propõe uma versão acabada. Para outros, a existência de um tal poder, que se quer "absoluto", é desmentida pelos fatos, estando a monarquia incapacitada de se libertar das restrições inerentes à sociedade do Antigo Regime. O poder real absoluto encontra muitos obstáculos para se afi rmar. O "absolutismo limitado" seria, assim, a forma prática de uma teoria que conheceu apenas uma aplicação imperfeita. Se essas duas posições difi cilmente parecem compatíveis, parece, no entanto, necessário articular teoria e prática a fi m de apresentar uma versão coerente desse conceito. Desse modo, toda a questão do equilíbrio dos poderes políticos está em jogo, bem como os modos de justifi cativa e o processo de elaboração de uma autoridade que busca se dotar dos meios de sua doutrina.Tentar entender o sentido desse termo, nascido quando morria o regime que ele qualifi cava, implica ligar história e historiografi a. Trata-se, fi nalmente, de traçar as formas de um objeto histórico tão discutido, constantemente atacado e algumas vezes celebrado, retomando o trabalho da monarquia sobre si mesma, segundo a feliz expressão de Denis Richet (1991, p. 425-450). A uma teoria que justifi ca práticas de governo responde a prova dos fatos, a saber, o exercício de um poder cuja legitimidade deve ser constantemente reafi rmada.

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England: Kingship and the Political Community, c. 1100-1272

Turner¹

2007

A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages

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Bastard Feudalism Revised

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The Historiography of a Construct: “Feudalism” and the Medieval Historian

The Historiography of a Construct: “Feudalism” and the Medieval Historian

Absolutismo: um conceito não substituído

England: Kingship and the Political Community, c. 1100-1272

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