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Charles Edwin Odegaard.
Vassi and Fideles in the Carolingian Empire.
Published New York: Octagon Books, 1972 (reprinted from the 1945 Harvard U.P. edn.)
Series: Harvard Historical Monographs, XIX.
ISBN 0374961352.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; published without a dustjacket.
Printer: Noble Offset Printers Inc., New York.
Size: 143x215x20mm.
Page count: xi,166pp.
Main language: English; some quotations given without transl;ation.
Overall condition fair to good: covers slightly scuffed with some mild wear and bumping on the edges and corners; the pages are rather yellowed with age; the print on several pages is very light, but the text is legible; a few pages near the back are slightly bashed at the lower corner; text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 414g.

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Contents: Intro.; Vassi; Fideles; Conclusion.
Appendices: Commendation & the oath of fidelity; Further difficulties concerning vassalage; Bishop’s letter from Kiersy in 858; Krawinkel's interpretation of the Tassilo case; Fustel de Coulanges on fideles

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 12pp
Index: yes

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