Practice question · True or false
Historians disagree substantively about whether the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries are best described as a crisis of feudalism or as a reorganisation.
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- Ask whether the disagreement is about the facts or about how to weigh them.
- Bois and Hilton read a systemic crisis; others read a recovery for survivors.
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True
Why
True. Bois and Hilton read the period as feudalism breaking down under its own contradictions and being replaced. Others emphasise the fifteenth-century recovery: fewer people, more land per head, expanding trade, printing. Both are working from the same evidence and weighing aggregate against per-head measures differently.
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