![]() ![]() Italy was not a major part of this debate but the crisis years of the late eleventh century produced a similar breakdown of traditional political structures in the centre-north of Italy around 1100, and the emergence of local powers in much the same way as in parts of France. It ended in something of a stand-off, with more extreme versions of both sides largely set aside, but no real consensus. The ‘feudal revolution’ debate in the 1990s focussed on the years around 1000 and on France, and was an argument about whether or not that rough date marked a major change in political structures, with more privatised local powers focussed on castles and an effectively total breakdown of the ‘state’. Prothero Lecture, Cruciform Lecture Theatre I, UCL, 10 July 2013 ![]()
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