5. If feudalism had persisted in each area, would the outcomes have been as positive as they have been?…
During the medieval era, France had a feudal system of governance where the upper nobility siding with the kings controlled the lower classes. The social structure was fragmented into three unequal hierarchical groups consisting Kings, lords and peasants. The kings ruled the land and were believed to have been granted this right by God that they passed on through heredity. They incarnated the law and were the absolute monarchs. The Lords on the other hand hold fiefs that they rented to peasants in exchange of labor, fees and protection. The Lords consider themselves far more superior than the peasants or serfs and treated them unfairly as a result. Lastly the serfs, representing the vast majority of France population, approximately ninety percent, were the most neglected and most abused of all three classes.…
Under feudalism there was a noble (lords), vassals (knights), and workers (peasantry) (The Legacy of the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages in the West, 2012). The lords were usually large land owners, since there was no central government to provide protection they needed some. The vassals were usually knights that provided this protection in return for land. The vassals would then divide their lands amongst peasants in return for labor and military service when called upon. Once again instead of a central authority, Europe was broken down into several smaller ones.…
-Large landowners living away and set up their private armies. Farmers trade land for protections. Therefore, lord gained more power and it’s the beginning of feudal system.…
In medieval Europe, country life was governed by a system call “feudalism.” In a feudal society, the king gave large pieces of land called fiefs to noblemen and bishops. Peasants without land were known as serfs, they did most of the work on the fiefs: They planted and harvested crops and gave most of the produce to the landowner. In exchange for their labor, they were allowed to live on the land.…
The benefit of feudalism was the protection granted by the king in exchange for services as traveling around was very dangerous. However, servicing the king was a long-time commitment and people became bound to the king, almost as slaves. It was very hard to rise socially in feudalism; people were born as what they would be for the rest of their lives. The poor and unhealthy were given menial jobs while lords and nobles benefited the most from feudalism.…
In the beginning of the Middle Ages, feudalism became more popular and was later made the political institution. Another civilization that used feudalism as their way of governing was Japan, as feudalism played an important role in the government. The feudal system brought unity, an example would be the relationships between the military leaders and the lower class. The military lords provided protection and in return the lower class had to provide in military service. This was considered a good way in keeping order during the Middle Ages.…
In England William the Conqueror gave the name of feudalism to the system of government after he defeated Harold at the Battle of Hastings. In the feudalism system there were kings, lords, knights and serfs and the hierarchy between them can be displayed as a pyramid, with the king at the top of the pyramid and the serfs of the country at the…
Medieval Europe was under an extreme burden at the turn of the century. The demographics of medieval Europe grew to an unprecedented scale. The population had grown to the brink of starvation. Only under the best conditions would the field 's yield enough to feed the population. The Black death struck in 1347 and decimated the European population. The black death was a necessity to prevent overpopulation and economic decline.…
The middle ages were a dark and scary time. They had everything broken down into groups of people. This system was called feudalism. The stages were broken into peasants next squire, knights, then onto kings. During this time something horrible happened, the black death occurred. The black death happened in the 1300s.…
Imagine a place where everyone is dying from a deadly disease and leaves your town with very few people, that happened in the Middle Ages. The Black Death was a deadly disease that can kill people in 2 days. Feudalism is a political structure that was a way to pay taxes and work to get food. The Black Death was one of the reasons for the decline of feudalism because it killed many people in the system and didn't matter what social class you were in. The Black Plague was one of the major issues that led to the decline of feudalism.…
Medieval Europe or the Middle Ages, is a time period during c.500 AD to c. 1500 AD. There are many societal aspects that can be observed during this time period that served Medieval Europe's function and growth, two of which are crime and punishment and towns, cities and commerce. These two societal aspects contributed to the functioning of the feudal system, the power of rulers and prosperity of nations. Feudalism was introduced to England and Europe when William the Conqueror successfully invaded England in 1066 and enforced the idea that In order to be successful one must be loyal to the King. To many a historian this is where the strength of Europe, particularly England grew. Punishment and commerce are two important societal aspects that…
The Age of Feudalism was when people started to become wiser. A social structure established which kept the peasants protected. A relationship between lords and vassals developed where the kings and lords were on top, vassals below them, knights below them, and serfs on the bottom. They all relied on each other because they all provided for each other. The kings gave the vassals land and vassals gave the knights land and the knights provided protection for everyone. The serfs paid taxes and provided food and services for everyone else. (Document 4) The vassals pledge to the lords that they will provide knights and aid. (Document 2) This social structure worked for everybody because they all had what they needed. The Age of Feudalism ended the dark ages of European history by introducing order to the common person's life.…
In Marc Bloch’s Feudal Society Feudalism is described as a system in which the Crown gave land to nobility in return for their military support. Peasants were obligated to live on these lands and serve their lords in return for food, shelter, and military protection (Bloch XIV). Peasants were paid very little and sometimes not at all for their work. This system was very corrupt in nature and all power was held by the nobility. The massive body count among the lower class led to a shortage of peasant farmhands.…
Feudalism was a contrasting system dealing with political and military relationships existing among members of the higher social class, Kings, Lords and other owners of large lands in Western Europe during the Middle Ages. The Feudal system started by the granting of fiefs, chiefly in the form of land and labor, in return the lord would receive political and military services that was usual sealed by oaths of fidelity, instead of a written out contract. The Lord and vassal would be interlocked in a bunch of mutual rights and obligations, to the advantage of both. Where the lord owed his vassal protection and the vassal owed his lord a specified number of days annually in military service and supplies of goods, and the lord were expected to provide a military for his king. With that “feudal warfare” would arise as Kings would try to obtain more land then each other and expand their territory. As mentioned in class the Carolingian Empire was the first great European dynasty, it would unite all the small Frankish kingdoms that had established themselves in Gaul and this is where the early form of feudalism was used to raise the Carolingian armies.…