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Feudalism

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• Feudalism -- Georgia (Republic)
• Feudalism -- Great Britain
• Feudalism -- History
• Feudalism -- Japan
• Feudalism -- Jerusalem (Latin Kingdom)
• Feudalism -- Political aspects
• Feudal law
• Fiefs
• Ministerials

• Feudal tenure

• The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages (originally published 1966; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Walter Ullmann (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Essai sur la Géographie Féodale de la Bretagne, Avec la Carte des Fiefs et Seigneuries de Cette Province (in French; Rennes: J. Plihon et Hervé, 1889), by Arthur Le Moyne de La Borderie (page images at HathiTrust)

• Estratti di un Processo per Lite Feudale del Secolo XV Concernenti gli Ultimi Anni del Regno di Federico III e la Minorità della Regina Maria (documents in Latin, commentary in Italian; Palermo: M. Amenta, 1878), ed. by Isidoro La Lumia (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Development of Southern French and Catalan Society, 718-1050, by Archibald R. Lewis (PDF files at Libro)

• Our Little Norman Cousin of Long Ago: Being a Story of Normandy in the Time of William the Conqueror (Boston: The Page Co., c1915), by Evaleen Stein, illust. by John Goss (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)

• Les Fiefs Nobles du Chateau Ducal d'Uzeès (in French; Uzeès: Imp. Malige, 1906), by Lionel d' Albiousse
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Studies in the History of the English Feudal Barony (originally published 1943 as Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, series 61 no. 3; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Sidney Painter (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares, 1217-1314 (originally published 1965; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Michael Altschul (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, by John Horace Round (PDF at McMaster)

• Der Lehnsstaat in Georgien (in German; Leipzig: R. Voigtländer, 1914), by Julius Reimers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Seigneurs of Old Canada: A Chronicle of New-World Feudalism, by William Bennett Munro (Gutenberg text)

• Christian Converts and Social Protest in Meiji Japan (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2002), by Irwin Scheiner (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Bushido, the Soul of Japan: An Exposition of Japanese Thought, by Inazo Nitobe (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Feudal Monarchy in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1100 to 1291 (Cambridge, MA: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1932), by John L. La Monte (page images at HathiTrust)

• Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life (Oakland: University of California Press, c2024), by Nathan Schneider, illust. by Darija Medić (multiple formats with commentary at luminosoa.org)

• Noble Bondsmen: Ministerial Marriages in the Archdiocese of Salzburg, 1100-1343 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by John B. Freed (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• French Chivalry: Chivalric Ideas and Practices in Mediaeval France (originally published 1940; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Sidney Painter (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Ritterzeit und Ritterwesen (2 volumes in German; Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1823), by Johann Gustav Büsching
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at Google
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry, and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Aldo D. Scaglione (HTML at UC Press)
• Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry, by Thomas Bulfinch (Gutenberg text)
• The History of Chivalry (second edition; London: Colburn and Bentley, 1830), by G. P. R. James (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• The History of Chivalry (New York: Harper and Bros., n.d.), by G. P. R. James (Gutenberg text)
• La Chevalerie (third edition, in French; Paris: H. Welter, 1895), by Léon Gautier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• La Chevalerie (edition de luxe, in French; Paris: Féchoz et cie, 1896), by Léon Gautier (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Book of the Ordre of Chyualry: Translated and Printed by William Caxton, From a French Version of Ramón Lull's "Le Libre del Orde de Cauayleria", Together With Adam Loutfut's Scottish Transcript (Harleian Ms. 6149) (EETS original series #168; London: Pub for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926), by Ramon Llull, ed. by A. T. P. Byles, trans. by William Caxton, contrib. by Adam Loutfut (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• The Book of the Ordre of Chyualry, by Ramon Llull, trans. by William Caxton (PDF at shipbrook.net)

• The Flower of Battles, With Harness and Without, on Horse and on Foot (modern literal translation of 15th century Flos Duellatorum), by Fiore dei Liberi, trans. by Hermes Michelini (illustrated HTML at aemma.org)

• Brief Instructions Upon My Paradoxes of Defence, by George Silver (HTML at pbm.com)
• The Flower of Battles, With Harness and Without, on Horse and on Foot (modern literal translation of 15th century Flos Duellatorum), by Fiore dei Liberi, trans. by Hermes Michelini (illustrated HTML at aemma.org)
• Paradoxes of Defence, by George Silver (illustrated HTML at pbm.com)

• Modern Chivalry (Philadelphia: J. M'Culloch, 1792), by H. H. Brackenridge (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Tales of Superstition and Chivalry, by Anne Bannerman (HTML at cdlib.org)

• Stories From Famous Ballads, for Children (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860), by Grace Greenwood, illust. by Hammatt Billings (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The History of Valentine and Orson (Devonport, England: S. and J. Keys, ca. 1840) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Our Little Crusader Cousin of Long Ago; Being The Story of Hugo, Page to King Richard of England, in the Third Crusade (Boston: The Page Company, c1921), by Evaleen Stein, illust. by Charles E. Meister (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Stories from the Faerie Queene, by Mary Macleod, contrib. by Edmund Spenser and John W. Hales, illust. by Arthur G. Walker (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Queen Summer: or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose, by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Chivalry, Reading, and Women's Culture in Early Modern Spain: From Amadís de Gaula to Don Quixote (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2018), by Stacey Elizabeth Triplette (HTML and PDF with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Poem as Green Girdle: Commercium in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, by R. A. Shoaf (frame-dependent HTML at ufl.edu)

• The Code of Honor: or, Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in Duelling (Charleston, SC: Printed by T.J. Eccles, 1838), by John Lyde Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Code of Honor: or, Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in Duelling, by John Lyde Wilson (Gutenberg text)
• The Code of Honor: or, Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in Duelling (Charleston, SC: Printed by J. Phinney, 1858), by John Lyde Wilson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Down the River: or, Practical Lessons Under the Code Duello (New York: E. J. Hale and Son, 1874), by George W. Hooper
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Cyrus Townsend Brady, illust. by Seymour M. Stone, George Gibbs, W. J. Aylward, and J. N. Marchand (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Men and Violence: Gender, Honor, and Rituals in Modern Europe and America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), ed. by Petrus Cornelis Spierenburg
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

• Down the River: or, Practical Lessons Under the Code Duello (New York: E. J. Hale and Son, 1874), by George W. Hooper
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA

• The Art of Fencing, or, The Use of the Small Sword (Dublin: James Hoey, 1734), by Labat, trans. by Andrew Mahon
  • PDF at MSU
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• The Sentiment of the Sword: A Country-House Dialogue, by Richard Francis Burton (HTML at ejmas.com)

• Men and Violence: Gender, Honor, and Rituals in Modern Europe and America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), ed. by Petrus Cornelis Spierenburg
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State
• An Enquiry Into the Origin of Honour and the Usefulness of Christianity in War, by Bernard Mandeville (Gutenberg text)

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