Originally published in 1939 and available here in English, Land and Lordship has been one of the most influential works of the twentieth-century medieval schol

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Otto Brunner contends that prevailing notions of medieval social and constitutional history had been shaped by the nineteenth-century nation state and its "libe

Richard C. Hoffman's monumental study of rural life in medieval eastern Europe focuses on one region, the Duchy of Wroclaw, from the twelfth to sixteenth centur

He traces the increasing sophistication of law and the changes in royal control of justice, and offers a significant reassessment of legal developments in the e