Anti feudalism
the , or its principles and practices.
noun
also called feudal system. the legal and social system that evolved in w europe in the 8th and 9th centuries, in which v-ssals were protected and maintained by their lords, usually through the granting of fiefs, and were required to serve under them in war see also v-ssalage, fief
any social system or society, such as medieval j-pan or ptolemaic egypt, that resembles medieval european feudalism
n.
a coinage of historians, first attested 1839; see feudal. feudal system attested from 1776.
feudalism [(fyoohd-l-iz-uhm)]
a system of obligations that bound lords and their subjects in europe during much of the middle ages. in theory, the king owned all or most of the land and gave it to his leading n-bles in return for their loyalty and military service. the n-bles in turn held land that peasants, including serfs, were allowed to farm in return for the peasants’ labor and a portion of their produce. under feudalism, people were born with a permanent position in society. (see fief and v-ssal.)
note: today, the word feudal is sometimes used as a general term for a set of social relationships that seems unprogressive or out of step with modern society.
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