Rural communities and seigneurial power -- Peasant life, agriculture, and social distribution -- Domination by the nobility -- City life and city people -- The monarchy and the new nobility -- Ecclesiastical power and religious faith -- Warfare and society -- Social bonds and social protest -- Traditional attitudes and identities -- Emerging identities -education and the new elite -- Monarchs and courtly society -- Aristocracy's last bloom and the forces of change.
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