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Asking Questions and Not Teaching Feudalism, Manorialism, and Serfdom in Late Medieval Europe

Discussion of (not) teaching feudalism, manorialism, and serfdom in late medieval Europe

Bram Hubbell
Bram Hubbell
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Asking Questions and Not Teaching Feudalism, Manorialism, and Serfdom in Late Medieval Europe

Most of us probably learned something about feudalism, manorialism, and serfdom at some point in our education. You may even have drawn a diagram of Europe’s social order. The problem with all these concepts is that they are more concepts than historic realities. So how do we teach them?

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