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Feudal Society is considered to be a standard international treatise on feudalism. It is the last product of his scholarly activities. These volumes open up a view of middle ages much wider and truer than most other studies of dealing ostensibly with the same subject.
The work explores the craft of the historian from a number of different angles and discusses what constitutes history and how it should be configured and created in literary form by the historian. The scope of the work is broad across space and time: in one chapter, for instance, he cites a number of examples of erroneous history-writing and forgeries, citing sources as wide-ranging as the Commentaries of Julius Caesar and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. His ...