The Three Orders
Subtitle: Feudal Society Imagined
Contributors: Arthur Goldhammer (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 15, 1982
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780226167725
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Social history; Political Science; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; Europe; General; Political Science / General; Feudalism; France; Medieval, 500-1500; Social conditions
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."