What Is Feudalism?
Historians use the word for a system in medieval Europe, roughly from the tenth to the thirteenth century (World History Encyclopedia).
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1.What does feudalism describe?
Historians use the word for a system in medieval Europe, roughly from the tenth to the thirteenth century (World History Encyclopedia).
2.What is a fief, and who is a vassal?
The vassal owed service: soldiers, or regular payments in produce or money; each step down owed something to the step above and got something back.
3.What is the demesne?
Typically 35 to 40 percent of the manor; the rest was split into family plots of around 12 acres (5 hectares).
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Sources (4)
- Feudalism (World History Encyclopedia)
- Manorialism (World History Encyclopedia)
- Manorialism (Wikipedia, englisch)
- Eigene Rechnung: synthetisches Gutsbeispiel (Ernte 60 Saecke, zwei Tage Frondienst, ein Fuenftel Naturalabgabe)
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