Description: However, Ullmann points to feudalism as the single most important medieval institution that laid the groundwork for the emergence of the modern citizen.
Brief description: Walter Ullmann (1910-1983) was an Austrian-British scholar of medieval intellectual history with a focus on political thought, legal theory, and the papacy. He is the author of The Growth of Papal Government in the Middle Ages. He was a scholar at the University of Cambridge from 1949 until he retired, in 1978, as the university's fifth professor of medieval history.