any good books on the medieval period?<br/>yes i have already read the peseant war in germany, no i did not understood what the fuck it was saying

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:12 No.1299

any good books on the medieval period?
yes i have already read the peseant war in germany, no i did not understood what the fuck it was saying

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:12 No.1300

https://archive.org/details/historyofthemiddleages/
History of the Middle Ages. A 1988 Soviet work.

Wat 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:12 No.3583

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>>1299
Georges Duby's works are worth checking out. Pics related are two books of his that I highly recommend. It's worth noting Duby isn't a Marxist, but he is a social historian and damn good one at that.

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:12 No.3585

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>>1299
I've heard good things about thisin

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:13 No.3587

Chris Wickham has some good overview books, is a Marxist, and is a giant of the early medieval period who's familiar with nearly every archaeological development in the field. The only negative thing I can say is that he's a bit dry as a stylist, which especially is a vice in a large book.

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:13 No.3590

>>1299
John Hatcher and Mark Bailey Modelling the Middle Ages

The Brenner Debate (Specifically 'Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe')

Guy Bois, The Crisis of Feudalism : Economy and Society in Eastern Normandy C1300-1550

Robert Bartlett, The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonisation and Cultural Change: 950-1350 (Personal fave, the least dry out of all the texts and it gives you a broad picture for you to decide what your interested in)

As posted by previous anon, 'The Three Orders' is a must imo. If you have a specific area your interested in that would help as there's a lot going on at the same time, and it becomes tricky to create general histories due to the variety of shit that was going on across europe. Especially since a lot of histories just ignore eastern europe.

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:13 No.3593

Jacques Le Goff

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:18 No.3639

From a more rightist colleague I've heard John Huizinga's "Autumn of the Middle Ages" as THE book I should read. (His 'Homo Ludens' also sounds quite interesting)

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:19 No.3647

Why does a full suit of High Middle Ages chainmail, like with coif, hauberk, mufflers, cuisse, etc. look so fucking good?

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:20 No.3665

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A bit specialist, but there are some reading recommendations in this academic syllabus for anyone interested in medieval philosophy and theology:
https://itself.blog/2020/10/08/angels-and-demons-syllabus/#more-27219

Anonymous 2021-11-10 (Wed) 22:50:52 No.8630

There is some good Soviet literature but It'll take me time to dig it up

Anonymous 2021-11-12 (Fri) 00:19:35 No.8641

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>"Marc Bloch said that his goal in writing Feudal Society was to go beyond the technical study a medievalist would typically write and 'dismantle a social structure.' In this outstanding and monumental work, which has introduced generations of readers to the feudal period, Bloch treats feudalism as living, breathing force in Western Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth century. At its heart lies a magisterial account of relations of lord and vassal, and the origins of the nature of the fief, brought to life through compelling accounts of the nobility, knighthood and chivalry, family relations, political and legal institutions, and the church. For Bloch history was a process of constant movement and evolution and he describes the slow process by which feudal societies turned into what would eventually become nation states. A tour de force of historical writing, Feudal Society is essential reading for anyone interested in both Western Europe's past and present.

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