Further thoughts on the origins of ‘Feudalism’

Earlier this month I linked in two posts to articles from Medievalists.net by Daniel Bachrach in which he explored the debate about the origins of “Feudalism”, and indeed whether it ever existed as historians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries believed it had.  These two posts can be seen at Another nail in the coffin of the F word and  at Training the Carolingian army

Medievalists.net has published a third article by Bachrach which summarises a critique of key arguments in Georges Duby’s well known - and often cited - development of a Three Orders or Estates model for eleventh century society.

The article can be read at Knighthood Before the Crusades: Bishop Gerard of Cambrai’s Vision of Medieval Society