| Description |
xix, 425 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Festschrift for J.R. Strayer. |
| Bibliography |
"J. R. Strayer: a chronological bibliography": pages [399]-410. |
| Contents |
I. Normandy -- The writ of novel disseisin in Normandy at the end of the thirteenth century -- Economic conditions in the county of Beaumont-le-Roger, 1261-1313 -- A forged charter of Henry II for Bival -- On the early Norman charters, 911-1066 -- Normandy and Languedoc -- II. Feudalism -- The two levels of feudalism -- The development of feudal institutions -- The Tokugawa period and Japanese feudalism -- III. Crusades -- The crusade against Aragon -- The political crusades of the thirteenth century -- The crusades of Louis IX -- IV. Philip the Fair -- Philip the Fair - a "constitutional" king -- Viscounts and viguiers under Philip the Fair -- Pierre de Chalon and the origins of the French customs service -- Italian bankers and Philip the Fair -- v. Problems of state-building -- The laicization of French and English society in the thirteenth century -- The statute of York and the community of the realm -- Defense of the realm and royal power in France -- France : the Holy Land, the chosen people, and the most Christian king -- The promise of the fourteenth century -- The state and religion : an exploratory comparison in different cultures -- Empires - some reflections on Roman and modern imperialism -- The first Western union -- The historical experience of nation-building in Europe -- Problems of dictatorship : the Russian experience -- VI. The teaching of history -- Introduction to the interpretation of history -- United States history and world history -- The teaching of world cultures : a historian's viewpoint -- Graduate training in the humanities. |
| Subject |
Middle Ages.
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Middle Ages -- Historiography.
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Constitutional history, Medieval.
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Strayer, Joseph R. (Joseph Reese), 1904-1987 -- Bibliography.
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| ISBN |
0691046026 |
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9780691046020 |
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