Social status on the road from feudalism to the age of enlightenment

Abstract

The author examines the rise of the centralized state and its effect on the power of aristocracy during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries in the British Isles and in France and its eastern periphery. He defines states as entities with political power over a delimited territory, and he chooses to give most attention to the centralization (p. 11) and the differentiation of power (p. 23).

Citation

Brenner, Y.S. (2008), "Social status on the road from feudalism to the age of enlightenment", Samuels, W.J., Biddle, J.E. and Emmett, R.B. (Ed.) A Research Annual (Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Vol. 26 Part 1), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 69-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0743-4154(08)26007-4