¹ All the volumes feature extensive and up-to-date bibliographies: Boase, pp. 199–211; Green, pp. 226–38; Vale, pp. 179–97, Scattergood and Sherborne, in the footnotes of each article.

² The most elaborate discussion of this view of society is now Duby, Georges, The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined (Chicago, 1980), a translation of Les trois ordres (Paris, 1978). Unfortunately, Duby's treatment is mainly confined to the early middle ages and the “first feudal period.”Google Scholar

³ For other examples, see Vale, pp. 65, 71.

⁴ There is a full review, covering each essay, by Rosenthal, J. T. in the Welsh History Review, 12:1 (1984), 266–67.Google Scholar In addition to the essays mentioned here, the volume includes Maurice Keen, “Chaucer's Knight, the English Aristocracy, and the Crusade” Nicholas Orme, “The Education of the Courtier”; R. F. Green, “The Familia Regis and the Familia Cupidinis” Denton Fox, “Middle Scots Poets and Patrons”; J. J. G. Alexander, “Painting and Manuscript Illumination for Royal Patrons in the Later Middle Ages”; A. I. Doyle, “English Books in and out of Court from Edward III to Henry VII”; Nigel Wilkins, “Music and poetry at Court: England and France in the Late Middle Ages.”