Manoralism and Feudalism: please explain to me the difference?

Answer 1

Check Wikipedia.

Answer 2

Feudalism is the social and political system in which a hierarchy of hereditary nobles (land owners) controlled the loyalty of those directly below them, and owed loyalty to those directly above them. At the top was the liege (usually a king), adn at the bottom were serfs.

Levels of nobility had different names. In English some of these were duke, earl, baron, and baronet. A duke might have a castle, an earl a manor, a baron a great hall, and a baronet a goodly sized cottage.

Manorialism (don't forget the 'i' in the middle) was the economic system arranged around the manors or lands of these nobles. In this system, parallel to the feudal system, wealth traveled upward (much as loyalty and service did in feudalism). The theory under which serf farmers paid the idle rich was that they were part of the land, like accessories, and only nobles had fully human desires and characteristics. Think of what nobility and noble mean today, even in the anti-aristocratic United States.

Answer 3

Manorialism is a land management system used in the middle ages. Through this system the large tracts of farm land were partitioned into Manors, dominated by a Manor house from which the lord would conduct the official business of the Manor. The work on a Manor was conducted by Serfs (peasants tied to the land by inheritance) and free peasants (poor farmers who paid rents in the form of the vegetables they produced). The Serfs farmed areas of the Manor that were directly under the control of the Manorial Lord. In turn they were allowed to keep a small vegetable patch on the land (though usually a large portion of this was taken by the Lord as a form of taxation.) . The Lord (i use this term loosely because manors were also managed by the church) domminated life on the Manor and life was hard for the semienslaved peoples who worked them. The Lord was the justice of the peace in the Manor, he held the power of life and death as well as settle minor land disputes etc.
In Relation to this Feudalism was a political system used in Europe by the continents various Nobility to administer the goods produced by Manors into the treasury of a King (ie: English Manors paid taxes in the form of vegetables, wool, livestock etc. to the King of England). Unlike democratic political systems of today, Feudalism (as the name inplies) was also the system by which private wars were waged through out Europe. Disputes between Nobles would become hot and someone on one side would be killed. This would allow pretext for the other party to ask the kings permission to carry out vendetta either through battle (thus taking possesion of the enemies land) or through bribe (also known as wergild). Misconceptions about Feudalism are usually that it was an endless war, while this is partially true I believe it distorts what Feudalism was, a complex system of courtly procedure, boring administration, the odd assassination (more common then not), patronage and bribery and the familial relations of the nobilty led to this system. It is multifacitated and is really too long a subject to discuss here.
(all i have written here is mearly my opinion of my understanding of these two subjects...although i'm sure most of what I said here is valid...I may be off on some areas of my anwser)
thanks reall brain teaser of a question

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manoralism

Go to the above indicated.
Manoralism is a type of feudalism. Feudalism is more of a general term.