Studies in the History of the English Feudal Barony

• Main Author: Painter, Sidney (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 1943
• Subjects: European history
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Sidney Painter explores the Angevin and Plantagenet baronage by surveying the methods that barons used to increase their prestige. His book challenges the traditional view of the Hundred Years' War as pivotal to the transition from twelfth-century lords and vassals to the nobility of the fiftee...