FEUDALISM

System of Feudalism in the Medieval World

System of Feudalism in the Medieval World

Introduction

Medieval historians have traditionally understood feudalism to be a sociopolitical system that dominated European societies from the fall of the Roman Empire to the start of the Renaissance. It first employed by 16th century French and English jurists, and legal historians to explain anachronistic property laws in their own societies. To it denoted a framework in which political and military power decentralized, private, and local. The system as they envisioned it based in large part on the concept of the feudal contract, in which land, the fief, granted by ...