This article challenges the ‘from-lordship-to-government’ model of the grand narrative of European state formation through a reconceptualization of the late medieval German feud and lordship (1300–1500). It demonstrates how the predatory lordship of the feudal revolution persisted in late medieval imperial lands by centring on how modalities of extractive violence linked the lordly feud and lordship together in a system of seigneurial violence. It thus returns to Gadi Algazi’s controversial thesis that seigneurial lordship was a protection racket enabled by the omnipresent potential of the feud’s lordly violence. The author proposes that an overlooked body of evidence, damage registers (Schadensverzeichnisse), provides the evidence necessary for confirming and broadening Algazi’s insights. Through an archival collection of these documents, the author elucidates how this late medieval system of seigneurial violence was typified by a continuum of extractive violence from plundering to the levying of tribute and protection. In doing so, the author highlights how this system of seigneurial violence, lordship, and late medieval advances in governance held the potential to work together in far more complex ways than the ‘from-lordship-to-government’ narrative acknowledges.

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中世纪晚期世仇中的领主掠夺


本文通过对中世纪晚期德国世仇和领主制（1300-1500 年）的重新概念化，挑战了欧洲国家形成宏大叙事的“从领主到政府”模式。它通过集中展示榨取性暴力的方式如何在领主暴力系统中将领主世仇和领主制联系在一起，展示了封建革命的掠夺性领主制如何在中世纪晚期的帝国土地上持续存在。因此，它回到了加迪·阿尔加齐 （Gadi Algazi） 有争议的论点，即领主领主制是一种保护性骗局，由世仇无处不在的领主暴力潜力所促成。作者提出，一个被忽视的证据主体，即损害登记册 （Schadensverzeichnisse），为证实和拓宽 Algazi 的见解提供了必要的证据。通过这些文件的档案收藏，作者阐明了这种中世纪晚期的领地暴力体系是如何以从掠夺到征收贡品和保护的连续榨取暴力为特征的。在此过程中，作者强调了这种由领地暴力、领主制和中世纪晚期治理进步组成的体系如何能够以比“从领主到政府”叙述所承认的更复杂的方式协同工作。