In this first episode of the History Roundtable Podcast, This is Barris! stops by to discuss French history, how history gets taught and compressed, presentism, and anything else we think of!

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For more on rethinking Feudalism, check out:

Brown, Elizabeth A. R. “The Tyranny of a Construct: Feudalism and Historians of Medieval Europe.” The American Historical Review 79 (1974) 1063–1088.

The document in question was the Lombard Libri Feudorum