Over the last few years, a number of articles have featured in Past and Present on the subject of late medieval lordship. Three were accepted within a four-month period between July and October 2023 (Christian D. Liddy, ‘The Making of Towns, the Making of Polities’; Tristan W. Sharp, ‘Seigneurial Predation in the Late Medieval Feud’; Frederik Buylaert, Thijs Lambrecht, Klaas Van Gelder, and Kaat Cappelle, ‘The Political Economy of Seigneurial Lordship in Flanders’). The three pieces approached the subject in quite different ways, and with very different findings; at the same time, they were clearly talking about the same thing, and all were concerned with assessing more closely what lords took from, and had to offer to, local societies, and their social and/or economic impact. This seemed a good opportunity to hold a workshop to place the articles in conversation with each other in order to identify commonalities, reflect on the wider field, and prompt more general questions. The round table took place on 17 June 2024 at King’s College London. The version presented here is a revised and edited transcript, but aiming to retain the feel of the original oral conversation. A brief opening section introduces the articles to give context to the discussion.

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中世纪后期的领主地位：圆桌讨论

在过去的几年里，《过去与现在》杂志上发表了许多关于中世纪晚期领主制的文章。在 2023 年 7 月至 10 月的四个月内接受了三篇论文（Christian D. Liddy，《城镇的形成，政体的形成》;特里斯坦·夏普（Tristan W. Sharp），《中世纪晚期世仇中的领主掠夺》（Seigneurial Predation in the Late Medieval Feud）;Frederik Buylaert， Thijs Lambrecht， Klaas van Gelder， and Kaat Cappelle， 'The Political Economy of Seigneurial Lordship in Flanders'（《佛兰德斯领主领主的政治经济学》）。这三篇文章以完全不同的方式探讨了这个主题，并得出了截然不同的发现;与此同时，他们显然在谈论同一件事，并且都关心更仔细地评估上议院从地方社会那里获得了什么，以及必须为地方社会提供什么，以及它们的社会和/或经济影响。这似乎是一个很好的机会，可以举办一个研讨会，让文章相互对话，以识别共同点，反思更广泛的领域，并提出更普遍的问题。圆桌会议于 2024 年 6 月 17 日在伦敦国王学院举行。这里展示的版本是经过修改和编辑的文字记录，但旨在保留原始口头对话的感觉。简短的开场白部分介绍了这些文章，为讨论提供了背景信息。