What is the Feudal System?

Question

What is the feudal system and the duties of those within it during the middle ages?
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Answer 1

The term Feudalism, first used in the early modern period (17th century), refers in its most classic sense to a set of reciprocal legal and military obligations among the warrior nobility of Europe during the Middle Ages, revolving around the three key political concepts of lords, vassals, and fiefs. Although derived from the Latin word feodum (fief), then in use, the term "feudalism" and the "system" it purports to describe was unknown to people living in the Medieval Period.

Defining feudalism requires qualifiers because there is no broadly accepted agreement of what it means. For one to begin to understand feudalism, a working definition is desirable and the definition described in this article is the most senior and classic definition still subscribed to by many historians.

However, other definitions of feudalism exist. Since at least the 1960s, many medieval historians have included a broader social aspect, adding the peasantry bonds of manorialism, referred to as a "feudal society". Still others, since the 1970s, have re-examined the evidence and concluded that feudalism is an unworkable term and should be removed entirely from scholarly and educational discussion (see Revolt against the term feudalism), or at least only used with severe qualification and warning.

Outside of a European context, the concept of feudalism is normally only used by analogy (called semi-feudal), most often in discussions of Japan under the shoguns, and, sometimes, medieval and Gondarine Ethiopia. However, some have taken the feudalism analogy further, seeing it in places as diverse as Ancient Egypt, Parthian empire, India, to the American South of the nineteenth century.[1] The term "feudal" has also been applied—often inappropriately or pejoratively—to non-Western societies where institutions and attitudes similar to those of medieval Europe are perceived to prevail. Ultimately, the many ways the term "feudalism" has been used has deprived it of specific meaning, leading many historians and political theorists to reject it as a useful concept for understanding society.

Answer 2

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Feudal system; the system in the middle Age by which "vassals" held lands from more important lords, being bound in return to fight for these lords in war.

In the European history, the system of government and of society in which political and social relations among freemen were determined by contract. The contract was a free agreement between two men of unequal social level, the greater of whom was called a lord and the lesser a vassal. This is the usage preferred today by most historians, but the term is much abused. A long tradition in historical writing has no sanctioned the use of "Feudalism" in an economic as distinct from political or social sense. Economic feudalism refers to a system of production based upon large estates or on some form of serfdom or servile obligations.

Feudalism as a political and social system first fully emerged in western Europe in the late 9th and 10th centuries.

In China The First Empire, the Ch'in Dynnasty (221-207 B.C) ruled the first really united empire in Chinese history. Under the leadership of the legalists, it abolish the feudal system and divided the country into 42 prefectures with governors appointed by the central authority.

In Japan, The Emergence of Feudalism. While the effeminate court nobles at the capital were preoccupied with pleasure seeking and neglecting the serious business of government, their country cousin were engage in the vigorous but dangerous activity of fighting and preserving peace and order in the distant rural areas where the central government was ineffective in exercising its political power. These country cousin, who could trace their ancestry to the aristocratic families and even to the imperial family, were rapidly gaining power.

The Norman Conquest. William I instituted important reform in public life. He asserted authority a supreme landonwner and made landownership depend on a grant from him.

Answer 3

The feudal system was in place in Europe in the Middle Ages (and beyond). The Lords not only owned the land but also the peasants who lived on and worked the land. The peasants had to grow food and pay taxes to the Lord.

The Lords however had a duty to protect the peasants but also to the King and were required to provide soldiers and or fight themselves when the King needed them.

Answer 4

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