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The Crisis of the 12th Century: Power, Lordship and the Origins of European Government
by Thomas Bisson.
Princeton, 677 pp., £23.95, November 2008,978 0 691 13708 7 Show More
by Thomas Bisson.
Princeton, 677 pp., £23.95, November 2008,
“... At some points in the Middle Ages the ‘godfather’ system of social cohesion was the norm. Thomas Bisson, in The Crisis of the 12th Century, asks why this ceased to be the case. Bisson used to be the C.H. Haskins Professor of Medieval History at Harvard. In 1927 Haskins published an influential book called The ... ”
