1 septembre 2020
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Fredric L. Cheyette, « On the fief de reprise », Presses universitaires du Midi, ID : 10.4000/books.pumi.26638
Ever since Georges Duby demonstrated in his thesis on the Mâconnais the riches that could be extracted from eleventh and twelfth century charters, these documents have become the principal source for the social history of this period. Commonly, they have been considered unproblematic witnesses, directly transmitting the past to us almost without interference; in the language of electronic engineering, they are assumed to have a high signal-to-noise ratio; their changing vocabulary directly re...