EUROPEAN FEUDALISM

European Feudalism: Origins, Practices and Weaknesses

European Feudalism: Origins, Practices and Weaknesses

Introduction

Feudalism was a system of society in which vassals accepted and battled for a lord in come back for his defense for their individuals and land tenure. The lord in turn paid allegiance to a monarch in come back for his allocating of their rank, though this was very often an argued relationship.

Origins

The feudal system first seems in decisive pattern in the Frankish countries in the 9th and 10th cent. A long argument between scholars as to if its institutional cornerstone was Roman or Germanic continues rather inconclusive; it can ...