Isotope analysis reveals that social status and wealth had a profound impact on diet in medieval England, showing that people ...

Feudalism dominated medieval Europe for centuries - but by the end of the Middle Ages, it had begun to unravel. In this episode, Kings and Generals explores the multifaceted collapse of feudal society ...

Alex Snowdon traces the early development of capitalism and the struggle it generates against it Exploitative and deeply unequal class societies have existed for thousands of years.

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master [3] and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, ...

IN his Conway Memorial Lecture, "Science and Society in Ancient China", delivered on May 12, 1947, Dr. Joseph Needham attempts to sketch a pattern of the organisation of Chinese feudal society and its ...