Feudal System
A Feudal System is a socio-economic system that involves social classes where lords granted land (known as fiefs) to vassals in exchange for their loyalty and services, typically military or labor-related.
- AKA: Feudalism.
- Context:
- It can (typically) rely on a code of chivalry, a set of moral and social rules governing the behavior of knights and other members of the feudal society.
- It can (often) be marked by the subinfeudation, a system in which vassals could further divide their fiefs and grant them to sub-vassals.
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- Example(s):
- medieval Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries.
- the Daimyo system in feudal Japan, which had similar hierarchical structures with lords and vassals.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- A Capitalist System operates based on private ownership of property and competitive markets.
- A Socialist System emphasizes collective ownership of the means of production and the equitable distribution of resources among the members of society.
- See: Medieval Europe, Political System, Lord, Vassal, Fief.
References
2023
- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism Retrieved:2023-11-5.
- Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.
Although it is derived from the Latin word feodum or feudum (fief), [1] which was used during the Medieval period, the term feudalism and the system it describes were not conceived of as a formal political system by the people who lived during the Middle Ages. The classic definition, by François Louis Ganshof (1944),[2] describes a set of reciprocal legal and military obligations of the warrior nobility and revolved around the key concepts of lords, vassals, and fiefs.
A broader definition of feudalism, as described by Marc Bloch (1939), includes not only the obligations of the warrior nobility but the obligations of all three estates of the realm: the nobility, the clergy, and the peasantry, all of whom were bound by a system of manorialism; this is sometimes referred to as a "feudal society". Since the publication of Elizabeth A. R. Brown's "The Tyranny of a Construct" (1974) and Susan Reynolds's Fiefs and Vassals (1994), there has been ongoing inconclusive discussion among medieval historians as to whether feudalism is a useful construct for understanding medieval society.
- Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.
2016
- (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism Retrieved:2016-6-1.
- Feudalism was a combination of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour. ...
- ↑ feodum – see
- ↑ François Louis Ganshof (1944). Qu'est-ce que la féodalité. Translated into English by Philip Grierson as Feudalism, with a foreword by F. M. Stenton, 1st ed.: New York and London, 1952; 2nd ed: 1961; 3rd ed.: 1976.
2016
- https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/may/20/noam-chomsky-on-donald-trump-almost-a-death-knell-for-the-human-species
- QUOTE: The Guardian: Does it give you any hope that some of the super-rich, such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Warren Buffett, are willing to give away most of their money?
Noam Chomsky: And you’ll notice big tax deductions as well. There have always been benevolent aristocrats. That doesn’t make me fall in love with the feudal system.
- QUOTE: The Guardian: Does it give you any hope that some of the super-rich, such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Warren Buffett, are willing to give away most of their money?