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1820:(1939; English 1961) a feudal order not limited solely to the nobility. It is his radical notion that peasants were part of the feudal relationship that sets Bloch apart from his peers: while the vassal performed military service in exchange for the fief, the peasant performed physical labour in return for protection â both are a form of feudal relationship. According to Bloch, other elements of society can be seen in feudal terms; all the aspects of life were centred on "lordship", and so we can speak usefully of a feudal church structure, a feudal courtly (and anti-courtly) literature, and a feudal economy.
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1882:, Duby excavated the complex social and economic relationships among the individuals and institutions of the MĂąconnais region and charted a profound shift in the social structures of medieval society around the year 1000. He argued that in early 11th century, governing institutionsâparticularly comital courts established under the
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Too many models of feudalism used for comparisons, even by
Marxists, are still either constructed on the 16th-century basis or incorporate what, in a Marxist view, must surely be superficial or irrelevant features from it. Even when one restricts oneself to Europe and to feudalism in its narrow sense
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Without debate the
Assembly enthusiastically adopted equality of taxation and redemption of all manorial rights except for those involving personal servitudeâwhich were to be abolished without indemnification. Other proposals followed with the same success: the equality of legal punishment, admission
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Once the commendation ceremony was complete, the lord and vassal were in a feudal relationship with agreed obligations to one another. The vassal's principal obligation to the lord was to provide aid or military service. Using whatever equipment the vassal could obtain by virtue of the revenues from
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and comital control, linking vassals to their lords; but in other regions, the system led to significant confusion, all the more so as vassals could and frequently did pledge themselves to two or more lords. In response to this, the idea of a "liege lord" was developed (where the obligations to one
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version of feudalism describes a set of reciprocal legal and military obligations of the warrior nobility based on the key concepts of lords, vassals, and fiefs. In broad terms a lord was a noble who held land, a vassal was a person granted possession of the land by the lord, and the land was known
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in 1066. Round argued that the
Normans had brought feudalism with them to England, while Maitland contended that its fundamentals were already in place in Britain before 1066. The debate continues today, but a consensus viewpoint is that England before the Conquest had commendation (which embodied
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used the term "feudal system" to describe a social and economic system defined by inherited social ranks, each of which possessed inherent social and economic privileges and obligations. In such a system, wealth derived from agriculture, which was arranged not according to market forces but on the
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He also took it as a paradigm for understanding the power-relationships between capitalists and wage-labourers in his own time: "in pre-capitalist systems it was obvious that most people did not control their own destinyâunder feudalism, for instance, serfs had to work for their lords. Capitalism
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was unknown and the system it describes was not conceived of as a formal political system by the people living in the medieval period. This section describes the history of the idea of feudalism, how the concept originated among scholars and thinkers, how it changed over time, and modern debates
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Originally the peasants were supposed to pay for the release of seigneurial dues; these dues affected more than a quarter of the farmland in France and provided most of the income of the large landowners. The majority refused to pay and in 1793 the obligation was cancelled. Thus the peasants got
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for his own purposes, and even drove some of the bishops out of the church and placed his own laymen in their seats, Fouracre discounts Martel's role in creating political change, that it was simply a military move in order to have control in the region by hording land through tenancies, and
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In its origin, the feudal grant of land had been seen in terms of a personal bond between lord and vassal, but with time and the transformation of fiefs into hereditary holdings, the nature of the system came to be seen as a form of "politics of land" (an expression used by the historian
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families had done before them) lesser lords usurped/privatized a wide range of prerogatives and rights of the state, including travel dues, market dues, fees for using woodlands, obligations, use the lord's mill and, most importantly, the highly profitable rights of justice, etc. (what
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the fief, the vassal had to answer calls to military service by the lord. This security of military help was the primary reason the lord entered into the feudal relationship. In addition, the vassal could have other obligations to his lord, such as attendance at his court, whether
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bound by manorialism, and the estates of the Church. Thus the feudal order embraces society from top to bottom, though the "powerful and well-differentiated social group of the urban classes" came to occupy a distinct position to some extent outside the classic feudal hierarchy.
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this might be a fairly mundane matter of agricultural policy, but also included sentencing by the lord for criminal offences, including capital punishment in some cases. Concerning the king's feudal court, such deliberation could include the question of declaring war. These are
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introduced a modified and stricter northern French feudalism to
England incorporating (1086) oaths of loyalty to the king by all who held by feudal tenure, even the vassals of his principal vassals (holding by feudal tenure meant that vassals must provide the quota of
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means "goods", implying "a movable object of value". Bloch explains that by the beginning of the 10th century it was common to value land in monetary terms but to pay for it with objects of equivalent value, such as arms, clothing, horses or food. This was known as
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and principally by means of labour, produce and money rents. He deemed feudalism a 'democracy of unfreedom', juxtaposing the oppression of feudal subjects with a holistic integration of political and economic life of the sort lacking under industrial capitalism.
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of all to public office, abolition of venality in office, conversion of the tithe into payments subject to redemption, freedom of worship, prohibition of plural holding of benefices ... Privileges of provinces and towns were offered as a last sacrifice.
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Most of the military aspects of feudalism effectively ended by about 1500. This was partly since the military shifted from armies consisting of the nobility to professional fighters thus reducing the nobility's claim on power, but also because the
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notes that in the 21st century historians of Japan rarely invoke feudalism; instead of looking at similarities, specialists attempting comparative analysis concentrate on fundamental differences. Ultimately, critics say, the many ways the term
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without allocating land to these mounted troops. Mounted soldiers began to secure a system of hereditary rule over their allocated land and their power over the territory came to encompass the social, political, judicial, and economic spheres.
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rule where a king and one royal court held almost all the power. Feudal nobles regardless of ethnicity generally thought of themselves as arbiters of a politically free system, so this often puzzled them before the fall of most feudal laws.
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The concept of a feudal state or period, in the sense of either a regime or a period dominated by lords who possess financial or social power and prestige, became widely held in the middle of the 18th century, as a result of works such as
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countries, such as Poland and
Lithuania, with scholars observing that the medieval political and economic structure of those countries bears some, but not all, resemblances to the Western European societies commonly described as feudal.
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seems different because people are in theory free to work for themselves or for others as they choose. Yet most workers have as little control over their lives as feudal serfs." Some later
Marxist theorists (e.g.
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during the 9th and 10th centuries receded and gave way to a new feudal order wherein independent aristocratic knights wielded power over peasant communities through strong-arm tactics and threats of violence.
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in these empires. However, once the infrastructure to maintain unitary power was re-establishedâas with the
European monarchiesâfeudalism began to yield to this new power structure and eventually disappeared.
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it is extremely doubtful whether feudo-vassalic institutions formed a coherent bundle of institutions or concepts that were structurally separate from other institutions and concepts of the time.
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Encyc. Brit. op.cit. It was a standard part of the feudal contract (fief , fealty , faith ) that every tenant was under an obligation to attend his overlord's court to advise and support him;
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defined feudalism from a narrow legal and military perspective, arguing that feudal relationships existed only within the medieval nobility itself. Ganshof articulated this concept in
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owed by a vassal to his feudal lord. "Fealty" also refers to an oath that more explicitly reinforces the commitments of the vassal made during homage; such an oath follows homage.
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explains how at an early stage of the French
Revolution, on just one night of 4 August 1789, France abolished the long-lasting remnants of the feudal order. It announced, "The
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from the 9th to 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.
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expanded upon Brown's original thesis. Although some contemporaries questioned
Reynolds's methodology, other historians have supported it and her argument. Reynolds argues:
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also uses the term in the 19th century in his analysis of society's economic and political development, describing feudalism (or more usually feudal society or the feudal
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It could also involve the vassal providing "counsel", so that if the lord faced a major decision he would summon all his vassals and hold a council. At the level of the
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The term "féodal" was first used in 17th-century French legal treatises (1614) and translated into
English legal treatises as an adjective, such as "feodal government".
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laid the foundation for feudalism during the 8th century. Brunner believed Martel to be a brilliant warrior who secularized church lands for the purpose of providing
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The Frankish domains in the time of Charles Martel (boundaries approximate), primarily modern day France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Czech Republic and Austria
147:(1994), there has been ongoing inconclusive discussion among medieval historians as to whether feudalism is a useful construct for understanding medieval society.
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has been used have deprived it of specific meaning, leading some historians and political theorists to reject it as a useful concept for understanding society.
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as a fief. In exchange for the use of the fief and protection by the lord, the vassal provided some sort of service to the lord. There were many varieties of
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in the documents. The first attested instance of this is from 984, although more primitive forms were seen up to one-hundred years earlier. The origin of the
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has also been applied to non-Western societies, in which institutions and attitudes similar to those of medieval Europe are perceived to have prevailed (see
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were held for the election of a local parliament and the appointment of a government. The "revolution" is a consequence of the juridical intervention of the
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of the 1790s. Even when the original feudal relationships had disappeared, there were many institutional remnants of feudalism left in place. Historian
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as an anachronism that imparts a false sense of uniformity to the concept. Having noted the current use of many, often contradictory, definitions of
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offers a wider definition than Ganshof's and includes within the feudal structure not only the warrior aristocracy bound by vassalage, but also the
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has been deprived of specific meaning by the many ways it has been used, leading them to reject it as a useful concept for understanding society.
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Keshri VR, Bhaumik S (2022) . The feudal structure of global health and its implications for decolonisation . BMJ Global Health Available online
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was the gifting of land to the church, done for various spiritual and legal purposes. Although Charles Martel did indeed utilize
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expelling the bishops who he did not agree with, but it did not specifically create feudalism.
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Outside its European context, the concept of feudalism can be extended to
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abolished the "feudal regime" in August 1789, this is what was meant.
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and others, the plurality of forms strongly suggesting origins from a
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Paris: Le Seuil, 2001 (complete history of the meaning of the term).
3912:"The Futile Paradigm: In Quest of Feudalism in Early Medieval Japan"
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Feudalism, in its various forms, usually emerged as a result of the
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of the warrior nobility that revolved around the key concepts of
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The Development of Southern French and Catalan Society 718â1050
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subordinated the feudal state as secondary to his concept of a
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France in the late 15th century: a mosaic of feudal territories
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because of its bias and reductionism towards legitimating the
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The Equestrian Service and the Beginnings of the Feudal System
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and the system it describes were not conceived of as a formal
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4454: (archived 26 February 2009), by Robert Harbison, 1996,
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La société aux XIe et XIIe siÚcles dans la région mùconnaise
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3650:"The Young Marx on Feudalism as the Democracy of Unfreedom"
3470:. Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 35â62.
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monarchyâthat had represented public justice and order in
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required by the king or a money payment in substitution).
915:, a provision that was later extended to various parts of
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abolishes the feudal system entirely." Lefebvre explains:
565:, one of the least Germanic areas of Europe and bordering
449:, which can be translated as "Louis forbade that military
211:, and those who lived off their labour, most directly the
176:(1944), feudalism describes a set of reciprocal legal and
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510:(1776). The phrase "feudal system" appeared in 1736, in
116:; this is sometimes referred to as a "feudal society".
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3309:
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4448:"The Problem of Feudalism: An Historiographical Essay"
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Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted
3578:. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 18.
3549:. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 19.
3520:. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 19.
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Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted
1969:). Japan has been extensively studied in this regard.
1946:
Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted
1831:("What is feudalism?", 1944; translated in English as
830:), the vassal/feudal system was an effective tool for
577:) can be dated to 899, the same year a Muslim base at
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is unclear. It may come from a Germanic word, perhaps
3889:
1823:
In contradistinction to Bloch, the Belgian historian
514:, published nine years after the death of its author
439:(840) by Astronomus. In that text is a passage about
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The Attack on Feudalism in Eighteenth-century France
4142:
The Problem of Feudalism: An Historiographical Essay
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More recently in Scotland, on 28 November 2004, the
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lord are regarded as superior) in the 12th century.
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453:(which they popularly call "fodder") be furnished."
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3291:Society in Crisis: France in the Sixteenth Century
2987:
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1927:
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4428:, by Fredric Cheyette (Amherst), excerpted from
4281:Eastern Europe 1740â1985: Feudalism to Communism
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1567:) in their control of arable land, leading to a
919:following the invasion by French troops. In the
76:(1944), describes a set of reciprocal legal and
35:of a knight (miniature from the statutes of the
3092:. "The term 'fief': A possible Arabic origin",
803:"). Power in this period became more personal.
415:, meaning the exact opposite: landed property.
411:meaning movable property would have changed to
16:Legal and military structure in medieval Europe
3414:(2001). "Perspectives on the Medieval World".
1908:. This form of statehood, identified with the
1864:Society in the 11th and 12th centuries in the
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4145:. Western Kentucky University. Archived from
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339:'fee, feud', first attested in a charter of
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1783:In the late 19th and early 20th centuries,
1487:basis of customary labour services owed by
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977:, was abolished in December 2008, when the
139:'s "The Tyranny of a Construct" (1974) and
119:Although it is derived from the Latin word
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1029:The phrase "feudal society" as defined by
446:annona militaris quas vulgo foderum vocant
421:proposes that the origin of 'fief' is not
159:was in use by at least 1405, and the noun
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3289:"The End of Feudalism" in J.H.M. Salmon,
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386:. Kern derived the word from a putative
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112:, all of whom were bound by a system of
96:. A broader definition, as described by
84:and revolved around the key concepts of
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343:in 884, which is related to Old French
219:. This order is often referred to as a
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1078:Harold Sacramentum Fecit Willelmo Duci
839:End of European feudalism (1500â1850s)
319:, was depicted with his noble arms in
240:, and sometimes in discussions of the
195:A broader definition, as described in
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931:the abolishing law was issued by the
790:took control of local lands, and (as
561:. The first use of these terms is in
433:, the earliest attested use being in
172:According to a classic definition by
5793:9th-century establishments in Europe
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637:These acquired powers significantly
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4999:History of the Mediterranean region
4426:"Feudalism: the history of an idea"
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962:was abolished in 1856.
909:feudalism was abolished
5719:Post-classical history
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935:on 10 August 1812. In
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1967:Examples of feudalism
1954:
1934:Elizabeth A. R. Brown
1901:Personenverbandsstaat
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843:Further information:
753:examples of feudalism
741:
715:comes from the Latin
701:commendation ceremony
684:
660:Examples of feudalism
603:feo, feu, feuz, feuum
507:The Wealth of Nations
500:In the 18th century,
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39:, founded in 1352 by
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5699:Medieval reenactment
5495:Renaissance Humanism
5402:Medieval Warm Period
5372:Republic of Florence
5186:European Middle Ages
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4948:European integration
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3918:8.2 (2010): 179â196.
3625:The Teaching Company
3621:The High Middle Ages
3343:10.1093/past/37.1.71
3257:(Revised ed.).
3114:. pp. 332â343.
3049:6 March 2023 at the
2769:. pp. 165â166.
2527:Webster's Dictionary
2511:on 12 November 2004.
2463:Bloch, Marc (1961).
2422:on 29 February 2008.
2244:The Teaching Company
2073:Statutes of Mortmain
1466:Age of Enlightenment
1433:De L'Esprit des Lois
1169:Feudal fragmentation
913:Constituent Assembly
774:feudalism in England
652:Feudalism in England
488:and why it replaced
419:Archibald Ross Lewis
207:: the nobility, the
205:estates of the realm
178:military obligations
104:: the nobility, the
102:estates of the realm
78:military obligations
61:, also known as the
5412:Kingdom of Portugal
5279:Old Church Slavonic
5264:Anglo-Saxon England
4918:Revolutions of 1848
4848:Early modern France
4629:Anglo-Saxon England
4534:Classical antiquity
3186:, pp. 522â523.
3152:on 9 February 2012.
2939:Lewis, Archibald R.
1936:rejected the label
1608:
1104:Ecclesiastical fief
1019:in feudal England,
983:European Parliament
945:Kingdom of Sardinia
941:Charles Emmanuel IV
933:Sicilian Parliament
476:, began to replace
398:means "cattle" and
5593:In popular culture
5558:Crusading movement
5430:Hundred Years' War
5289:Civitas Schinesghe
5274:Carolingian Empire
5259:Kingdom of Croatia
5212:Barbarian kingdoms
5066:Types of societies
5024:Crusading movement
4928:Russian Revolution
4763:Hundred Years' War
4659:Maritime republics
4562:Early Christianity
4552:Hellenistic period
4509:Paleolithic Europe
4437:Medieval Feudalism
4337:(Routledge, 2013).
4252:History and Theory
4207:Hall, John Whitney
3335:Past & Present
3164:Sir Harris Nicolas
3141:Medieval Feudalism
3106:Gat, Azar (2006).
2389:on 18 October 2014
2001:Barons in Scotland
1872:monastery of Cluny
1604:
1557:mode of production
1505:
1324:Customary freehold
1164:Feudal maintenance
1027:
960:Slavery in Romania
943:, although in the
744:
693:
671:feudal land tenure
627:Carolingian Empire
529:Another theory by
325:
313:Reinmar von Zweter
56:
45:
5808:Political systems
5775:
5774:
5684:Basic topics list
5485:Swiss mercenaries
5435:Wars of the Roses
5342:Kingdom of Poland
5327:Holy Roman Empire
5194:Early Middle Ages
5152:
5151:
5032:
5031:
4958:COVID-19 pandemic
4903:French Revolution
4878:Habsburg monarchy
4858:Cossack Hetmanate
4838:Portuguese Empire
4828:Absolute monarchy
4823:Thirty Years' War
4718:Holy Roman Empire
4643:Bulgarian Empire
4602:Early Middle Ages
4519:Bronze Age Europe
4493:History of Europe
4320:Herbert, Sydney.
4107:Cantor, Norman F.
4033:Reynolds, Susan,
4019:Guerreau, Alain,
4012:978-0-8020-7158-3
3898:, pp. 15â51.
3851:978-0-1982-0648-4
3806:978-1-4128-2052-3
3764:978-1-1349-7024-7
3725:978-0-520-26818-0
3617:Daileader, Philip
3416:Medieval Panorama
3304:Lefebvre, Georges
3090:Alauddin Samarrai
2994:. HarperCollins.
2984:Cantor, Norman F.
2945:. pp. 76â77.
2776:978-0-19-925339-5
2584:Cf. for example:
2242:. Chantilly, VA:
2006:Bastard feudalism
1910:Holy Roman Empire
1906:territorial state
1781:
1780:
1647:Lord of the manor
1594:pre-Columbian era
1439:The Spirit of Law
1423:
1422:
1199:Lord of the manor
1174:Bastard feudalism
1063:English feudalism
929:Kingdom of Sicily
921:Kingdom of Naples
905:Kingdom of France
884:National Assembly
876:French Revolution
801:seigneurie banale
770:feudal revolution
646:Classic feudalism
531:Alauddin Samarrai
315:, a 13th-century
246:medieval Ethiopia
145:Fiefs and Vassals
41:Louis I of Naples
37:Order of the Knot
5820:
5803:Economic systems
5765:
5764:
5755:
5754:
5745:
5704:Medieval studies
5548:Church and State
5422:Late Middle Ages
5314:High Middle Ages
5232:Christianization
5202:Migration Period
5179:
5172:
5165:
5156:
5155:
5134:Proto-Industrial
5059:
5052:
5045:
5036:
5035:
4893:Great Divergence
4808:Age of Discovery
4753:Late Middle Ages
4723:High Middle Ages
4634:Byzantine Empire
4617:Christianization
4607:Migration Period
4542:Classical Greece
4514:Neolithic Europe
4486:
4479:
4472:
4463:
4462:
4365:
4310:
4275:
4242:
4202:
4174:
4155:End of feudalism
4150:
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4114:
4102:
4085:(4): 1063â1068.
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3436:
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3412:Bartlett, Robert
3408:
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3376:
3375:(2013) pp 293â94
3371:Paul R. Hanson,
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1855:
1773:
1766:
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1714:Domestic servant
1626:Territorial lord
1616:
1609:
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1508:Heinrich Brunner
1495:Heinrich Brunner
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1088:
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719:and denotes the
623:decentralization
593:the Arabic word
583:La Garde-Freinet
493:
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5598:Itinerant court
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5337:Georgian Empire
5322:Norman Conquest
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5254:Frankish Empire
5188:
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5144:Post-industrial
5082:Hunter-gatherer
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4933:Interwar period
4908:Napoleonic Wars
4772:
4743:Mongol invasion
4696:Crown of Aragon
4588:
4528:
4524:Iron Age Europe
4495:
4490:
4452:Wayback Machine
4442:Carl Stephenson
4412:Wayback Machine
4385:
4372:
4340:Markoff, John.
4317:
4291:
4264:10.2307/2504421
4248:Nell, Edward J.
4179:Davitt, Michael
4157:
4120:History Compass
4091:10.2307/1869563
4058:History Compass
4052:
4013:
3983:Feudal Society.
3978:
3976:Further reading
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3832:Reynolds, Susan
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