The Libri Feudorum (the ‘Books of Fiefs’)

Attilio Stella, Ph.D. (2014, Università di Trento), is a researcher at the Università di Verona. He has been research fellow at the University of St Andrews, Tel Aviv University and ENS Paris. He has published several articles and book chapters on feudal law and lordship in medieval Italy and France.

Preface and Acknowledgements

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1 The Libri feudorum in Modern Historiography



2 The Formation of the Libri feudorum and Its Context

 1 Before the Libri feudorum: Milan and Lombardy in the Eleventh Century

 2 The Early Tracts (c. 1100–1136)

 3 Fiefs and Vassals at the Time of the antiqua

 4 The Romanisation of the Fief: Obertus de Orto and the antiqua

 5 The Intermediate Recension Known as ardizzoniana

 6 The Accursian Recension and the vulgata

 7 The capitula extraordinaria



3 The Afterlife of the Libri feudorum

 1 The Libri feudorum and the ius commune from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century

 2 The Libri feudorum in Late Medieval and Early Modern France

 3 The Libri feudorum and Feudalism: Open Questions



4 Notes to Translation



Libri feudorum, compilatio vulgata: Book 1



Libri feudorum, compilatio vulgata: Book 2



Appendix 1: Capitula Extraordinaria Iacobi de Ardizone

Appendix 2: Capitula Extraordinaria Baraterii

Appendix 3: Edictum de beneficiis Regni Italici

Appendix 4: Synoptic Table

Glossary

Bibliography

Index