In an article published in this journal (Milonakis, 1993-94) I attempted a fresh look at the dynamics of feudalism by providing an alternative framework, to both Gerald Cohen's technological determinism and Robert Brenner's class-power approaches. Claudio Katz, in his recent critical note in response to my article (1994), argues that my attempt at constructing such a framework has failed, since my approach is in essence the same as Brenner's. In defense of my original thesis, this paper delineates and further clarifies certain methodological aspects of my approach, by locating it in the ongoing debate on the dynamics of history.
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