AD 1050 - 1200: Age of Feudalism

The Age of Feudalism deals with that period in Western Europe when lordship defined the social contract. The essays range from Norman expansion to the early Crusades as well as Church and State affairs.

Essays:
Normans: 1066 and Afterwards	The Norman Conquest of Sicily	Byzantium: The Battle of Manzikert
Pope Urban and the First Crusade	Peter the Hermit and the First Crusade	The Failure of the Second Crusade
Stephen's Claim to the Throne	Byzantium: On the Alexiad of Anna Comnena	The Murder of St Thomas Becket
Was Richard de Clare a true 'vassal' of Henry II?	Eleanor of Aquitaine	Crusades: The Reputation of Richard I the Lionheart
Crusades: The Career of Saladin	The Reign of King John

AD 1050 - 1200: Age of Feudalism

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