For For students of legal and institutional history wanting a French textbook survey of the Middle Ages; not for a reader looking for Ellul's own ideas.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
0 of 5not for the general reader
For the researcher
3 of 5worth your time
Difficulty
3 of 5demanding
A university textbook on medieval institutions from his teaching at Bordeaux. History, not Ellul's own argument.
How it proceeds
Philosophic1 of 5
Scriptural0 of 5
Experiential0 of 5
Sociological3 of 5
Historical5 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
The volume of Ellul's Histoire des institutions (Presses universitaires de France) devoted to the institutions of the Middle Ages. Like the rest of the series it is a university textbook, written out of his teaching of the history of law and institutions at Bordeaux, and reprinted many times in PUF's student collections. It surveys rather than argues. It has not been translated into English.
