The Birth of the Feudal World

How did the ruins of Rome give rise to a world of castles, lords, vassals, and hereditary power?

The Birth of the Feudal World traces the turbulent transformation of Europe from the collapse of the Western Roman Empire to the emergence of a distinctly medieval political and social order. Through Germanic kingdoms, Merovingian rivalries, Carolingian ambition, Viking invasions, and the growing power ...