FOREWORD BY T. S. BROWN
introduction: general scope of the inquiry
Part I - The Environment: The Last Invasions
I MOSLEMS AND HUNGARIANS
1 Europe Invaded and Besieged. 2 The Moslems. 3 The Hungarian Assault. 4 End of the Hungarian Invasions.
II THE NORTHMEN
1 General Character of the Scandinavian Invasions. 2 From Raid to Settlement. 3 The Scandinavian Settlements: England. 4 The Scandinavian Settlements: France. 5 The Conversion of the North. 6 In Search of Causes.
III SOME CONSEQUENCES AND SOME LESSONS OF THE INVASIONS
1 Disorder. 2 The Human Contribution: the Evidence of Language and Names. 3 The Human Contribution: the Evidence of Law and Social Structure. 4 The Human Contribution: Problems of Origin. 5 Lessons.
Part II - The Environment: Conditions of Life and Mental Climate
IV MATERIAL CONDITIONS AND ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS
1 The Two Ages of Feudalism. 2 The First Feudal Age: Density of Population. 3 The First Feudal Age: Intercommunication. 4 The First Feudal Age: Trade and Currency. 5 The Economic Revolution of the Second Feudal Age.
V MODES OF FEELING AND THOUGHT
1 Man's Attitude to Nature and Time. 2 Expression. 3 Culture and Social Classes. 4 The Religious Mentality.
VI THE FOLK MEMORY
1 Historiography. 2 The Epic.
VII THE INTELLECTUAL RENAISSANCE IN THE SECOND FEUDAL AGE
1 Some Characteristics of the New Culture. 2 The Growth of Self-Consqiousness.
VIII THE FOUNDATIONS OF LAW
1 The Ascendancy of Custom. 2 The Characteristics of Customary Law. 3 The Revival of Written Laws.
Part III - The Ties Between Man and Man: Kinship
IX THE SOLIDARITY OF THE KINDRED GROUP
1 The 'Friends by Blood'. 2 The Vendetta. 3 Economic Solidarity.
X CHARACTER AND VICISSITUDES OF THE TIE OF KINSHIP
1 The Realities of Family Life. 2 The Structure of the Family. 3 Ties of Kinship and Feudalism.
Part IV - The Ties between Man and Man: Vassalage and the Fie
XI VASSAL HOMAGE
1 The Man of Another Man. 2 Homage in the Feudal Era. 3 The Origins of Ties of Personal Dependence. 4 The Household Warriors. 5 Carolingian Vassalage. 6 The Formation of the Classical Type of Vassalage.
XII THE FIEF
1 'Benefit' and Fief: Stipendiary Tenement. 2 The 'Housing' of Vassals.
XIII GENERAL SURVEY OF EUROPE
1 French Diversity: the South-West and Normandy. 2 Italy. 3 Germany. 4 Outside the Carolingian Empire: Anglo-Saxon England and North-Western Spain. 5 The Imported Feudal Systems.
XIV THE FIEF BECOMES THE PATRIMONY OF THE VASSAL
1 The Problem of Inheritance: 'Honours' and Ordinary Fiefs. 2 The Evolution of Inheritance: the Case of France. 3 The Evolution of Inheritance: in the Empire. 4 The Transformations of the Fief as reflected in its Law of Succession. 5 Fealty for Sale.
XV THE MAN OF SEVERAL MASTERS
1 The Plurality of Homage. 2 Heyday and Decline of Liege Homage.
XVI VASSAL AND LORD
1 Aid and Protection. 2 Vassalage as a Substitute for the Kinship Tie. 3 Reciprocity and Breach of Engagements.
XVII THE PARADOX OF VASSALAGE
1 The Contradictions of the Evidence. 2 Legal Ties and Human Contact.
Part V - Ties oj Dependence among the Lower Orders of Society
XVIII THE MANOR
1 The Lord's Estate. 2 The Extension of the Manorial System. 3 Lord and Tenants.
XIX SERVITUDE AND FREEDOM
1 The Starting Point: Personal Status in the Prankish Period. 2 French Serfdom. 3 The Case of Germany. 4 England: the Vicissitudes of Villeinage.
XX TOWARDS NEW FORMS OF MANORIALISM
1 The Stabilization of Obligations. 2 The Transformation of Human Relationships.