The Three Orders
Subtitle: Feudal Society Imagined
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr (Tx)
Published: January 1981
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780226167718
Subjects: General; Constitution: government & the state; France - History; Medieval World History (Circa 450 - Circa 1450); Sociology; Feudalism; France; Medieval, 500-1500; Social conditions; Social history
First sentence: We begin, then, with two sentences: "Here below, some pray, others fight, still others work..."; "from the beginning, mankind has been divided into three parts, among men of prayer, farmers, and men of war."