On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> 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).
Wonderful book. Out of date on this point. Research has progressed.
Michael