Feudal Society During The Early Middle Ages

During the early Middle Ages, there became a time when the weaker strived for protection from the stronger. This caused a feudal society, which relates to the social, political, military, and economic system developed in this moment of disintegration. A feudal society is started when either a predominant prince or lord is in control and the highest virtues are those of mutual trust, loyalty, and devotion. In addition, what these people needed the most was the confidence that others could be counted on in drastic circumstances.
In this feudal society, there were two head organizations, the vassalage and the fief. In the vassalage, you were to swear fealty, or promise to abstain from taking certain actions that could threaten the lord, as well as doing anything upon his request. In exchange, the lord would assure that no harm would come to the vassal and to stand as his advocate in court. Overall, this relationship through the lord and vassal was solely trust. After fealty was sworn, the lord provided physical maintenance in the form of a fief. A fief was the physical or material ability to fulfill the vassal’s military and other obligations. Often, feudalism could lead to a tricky relationship if one person was a vassal to more than one lord.
The manors were village farms usually owned by a local landlord. Peasants would then come and work for the lord as farmers and in exchange, the lord was to give small plots of land and tenements. Some peasants who worked for the lord were free and had their own private land in which was only theirs. Yet there were also peasants who came to work for the lord without any land and became unfree serfs. These serfs were responsible for several days of labor as well as dues payed to their lord. However, many serfs were unsatisfied and as a result, there were many