The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined
5 best books like The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined (Georges Duby): The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire, Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome & the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD, Feudal Society, Volume 1, Feudal Society, Volume 2, Cristallisation Secrète
| Author | Edward N. Luttwak |
| ISBN | 0674035194 |
Highly enjoyable and very well researched book, there's a lot of information for those that want to learn more about the way the ERE fought its wars, conducted 'diplomacy' and how its military differed from the military of earlier periods.
Summarized:
More reliance on cavalry...
Jesus asserted it's easier for a camel to go thru the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Thru the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual & social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning...
| Author | Marc Bloch |
| ISBN | 0226059782 |
What I particularly enjoy about Bloch's study is the sense of feudal Europe as dynamic. Institutions are changing while different areas are developing in different ways and influencing each other. Waves of immigrant Magyars, Vikings and Muslims are sweeping, sailing and galloping in from the edges...
| Author | Marc Bloch |
| ISBN | 0226059790 |
First there was Feudal Society, volume 1 which unsurprisingly flows in to the second volume were we get the shifting social classes and the development of polities.
Despite the age of Bloch's work it provides along with Ganshof's Feudalism one of the basic or fundamental definitions of Feudalism,...
| Author | Yōko Ogawa |
| ISBN | 2742788298 |
L’île où se déroule cette histoire est depuis toujours soumise à un étrange phénomène : les choses et les êtres semblent promis à une sorte d’effacement diaboliquement orchestré. Quand un matin les oiseaux disparaissent à jamais, la jeune narratrice de ce livre ne s’épanche pas...
