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To: RobbyS

It generalizes, but whether it over generalizes depends on specifics.

The system of obligations is common, but the details did in fact vary.

The word ‘feudalism’ was coined because it was in many cases a useful generalization.


207 posted on 10/09/2013 4:48:40 PM PDT by donmeaker (The lessons of Weimar are soon to be relearned.)
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To: donmeaker

It was a polemical term aimed, really, at the Old Regime by its enemies, not at all the result of serious historical study, which was used in the process of discarding the very notion of Christian monarchy, in favor of something like Bourgeois republicanism.


231 posted on 10/09/2013 8:36:30 PM PDT by RobbyS (quotes)
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