[lbo-talk] World War as Class War

[C. G. Estabrook]

The distinction arises from the opposition to the Hohenstaufen attempts to 
establish a feudal monarchy in the peninsula.  The best general account remains, 
after a generation, Perry Anderson's "Lineages of the Absolutist State" (1974).

Michael Pollak wrote:
> 
>> Not a joke, if a necessary simplification.  Their disputes were as 
>> serious as ours - and perhaps need to be rescued from "the enormous 
>> condescension of posterity."  --CGE
> 
> I don't deny their seriousness.  But I deny the feudal/market 
> simplification of the G&G divide is helpful.  (The emperor/pope 
> distinction has more truth to it.)  It certainly confuses more than it 
> explains in Florence.  For an excellent explanation of why, and of what 
> a clearer take would look like, I highly recommend John Najemy's recent 
> _History of Florence: 1250-1550_.
> 
> Michael
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