How are feudalism and manorialism related?

Question

I need help in understanding exactly HOW the two systems are related. I mean, i now what feudalism and manorialism are in theory, but how are they linked? did they exist side-by-side, or did one form a basis for the other, or are they same / different in some ways?

Answer 1

I agree with Spreedog: FEUDALISM was the political system of the Middle Ages, while MANORIALISM was the economic system.

Feudalism, a system based on Germanic traditions, outlined the duties of feudal lords. Knights owed their allegiance to lords; lesser lords owed their allegiance to greater lords, greater lords owed their allegiance to a king. The allegiance included military support; paying ransoms; serving as judges; and providing gifts. Owing allegiance to a higher figure meant you were a VASSAL.

Manorialism was a basic economic system that divided the land for production. Lords controlled FIEFS, that could range in size from quite small (an estate), to very large. Fiefs had at least one village populated by peasants (the lowest of whom were serfs), and included a church, a mill, and other economic industry (i.e., a blacksmith). In return for protection by the lord, the peasants would provide food and other products. The serfs were tied to the land, and had to give so much of their labor to the lord (usually tending his fields, draining swamps, etc.).

So, feudalism and manorialism were the overlapping systems that created society in the Middle Ages.

Answer 2

I think of manorialism as a subset of the feudal system.
Manorialism refers to self sufficient communities something
like the southern plantations before the American Civil War,
but the manorial system of medieval (middle age) Europe also included the town, village or local community. Putting
it very simply, there was a local lord of the manor who had "feudal" obligations to greater lords who had feudal obligations to the top lord who was the king. Feudalism is
all about obligations and duties of lords and vassals. The manors were simply the local economic system in a time before factories and large cities and before the rise of a middle class.

Answer 3

Manorialism