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 AcknowledgementsAbbreviations1 The Libri feudorum in Modern Historiography2 The Formation of the Libri feudorum and Its Context1 Before the Libri feudorum: Milan and Lombardy in the Eleventh Century2 The Early Tracts (c. 1100–1136)3 Fiefs and Vassals at the Time of the antiqua4 The Romanisation of the Fief: Obertus de Orto and the antiqua5 The Intermediate Recension Known as ardizzoniana6 The Accursian Recension and the vulgata7 The capitula extraordinaria3 The Afterlife of the Libri feudorum1 The Libri feudorum and the ius commune from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century2 The Libri feudorum in Late Medieval and Early Modern France3 The Libri feudorum and Feudalism: Open Questions4 Notes to TranslationLibri feudorum, compilatio vulgata: Book 1Libri feudorum, compilatio vulgata: Book 2Appendix 1: Capitula Extraordinaria Iacobi de ArdizoneAppendix 2: Capitula Extraordinaria BarateriiAppendix 3: Edictum de beneficiis Regni ItaliciAppendix 4: Synoptic TableGlossaryBibliographyIndex