Abstract

AMENDOLLA SPINOLA, Diego Carlo. Chaire de Médiéviste: the first medievalists and the concepts of féodalité and féodalisme, 1870-1917. Estud. hist. mod. contemp. Mex [online]. 2020, n.59, pp.231-261.  Epub Jan 21, 2021. ISSN 0185-2620.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iih.24485004e.2020.59.70987.

This article analyzes the relationships between three of the first French medievalists’ intellectual life and their use and meaning of the concepts féodalité and féodalisme. In this sense, their enunciating horizon, university education, and attachment are put on exchange in respect to Fustel de Coulanges, who played a central role against Achille Luchaire’s and Jacques Flach’s historical interpretations and academic background. All of this aimed to discuss the form by which such exchange did influence the semantic content of two central concepts for the professional study of the Middle Ages, a field of studies sprang up during the last third of the 19th century.

Keywords : Fustel de Coulanges; Achille Luchaire; Jacques Flach; féodalité; féodalisme.