Feudalism as a Contested Concept in Historical Political Economy

Feudalism as a Contested Concept in Historical Political Economy

“The tyrant feudalism must be declared once and for all deposed and its influence over students of the Middle Ages finally ended” (Elizabeth Brown, 1974)This post is cross-posted at the How the World Became RichA goal of Historical Political Economy (HPE) is to build connections between social scientists and historians. But this laudable goal is, in fact, very hard to realize. Interdisciplinary scholarship has become ever more challenging. Acade…