Abstract
Abstract England in our period was a land in which ties of lordship and dependence were among the most essential and characteristic features of society. Reciprocal, but unequal, relationships of a personal kind tied lords and men in networks of mutual support. Lordship of this kind sharply marks off medieval from modern western societies. It involved a blend of powers and authorities usually kept distinct in the modern world, for all medieval lordship included elements that we would now distinguish as rights of property and rights of jurisdiction.
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