David M. Perry: if you haven't read the brown article, it's a masterpiece of argumentation. you have to skip through the historiography bit to get to where it picks up.

an email: Subject: OF COURSE FEUDALISM IS REAL!!! TEXT: Send me a pdf. I will keep an open mind. --- response: No.

Ok but *I* would read your assigned reading on this so can I have it?

I believe this is the reading in question. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

The Tyranny of a Construct: Feudalism and Historians of Medieval Europeacademic.oup.com Elizabeth A. R. Brown; The Tyranny of a Construct: Feudalism and Historians of Medieval Europe, The American Historical Review, Volume 79, Issue 4, 1 Octob

Yep! I’ve sent out a few hundred pdfs of it to various folks :) but not that person.

It's a bona fide classic.

And yet 50 years later …

See, I never have to worry about this. All I care about is the iqta’ system. chicagostudiesonthemiddleeast.uchicago.edu/igarashi.html

Chicago Studies on the Middle Eastchicagostudiesonthemiddleeast.uchicago.edu

if you haven't read the brown article, it's a masterpiece of argumentation. you have to skip through the historiography bit to get to where it picks up.

I remember reading it in my first grad class in Medieval history. It was a real eye-opener. Got me thinking about the many constructs I've accepted as real things.

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