   Feudal Society: Vol 1: The Growth and Ties of Dependence  by
Marc Bloch  ISBN 0415039169 / 9780415039161 / 0-415-03916-9
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is the masterpiece of one of the greatest historians of the
century. Marc Bloch's supreme achievement was to recreate the
vivid and complex world of Western Europe from the ninth to the
thirteenth centuries. For Bloch history was a living organism,
and to write of it was an endless process of creative evolution
and of growing understanding. The author treats feudalism as a
vitalising force in European society. He surveys the social and
economic conditions in which feudalism developed; he sees the
structures of kinship which underlay the formal relationships of
vassal and overlord. For Bloch these relationships are mutual as
much as coercive, the product of a dangerous and uncertain
world. His insigh