Feudalism
FEUDALISM is a disputed term.
Not used at the time. It was invented by jurists in the Renaissance to describe the property laws and customs of the middle ages. A fief, or feudum, was land held by a man from his lord, in return for which he was to provide him with knight services and/or financial payments.
Marx contrasted it to capitalism in the widest sense of that word so he inflated the term to mean the political, social, economic, and cultural system of Medieval Europe.
A economic system governed not by market relationships but by custom and force.
Marx and Smith both saw it as an economy and society marked by poverty, exploitation, and inequality. Squashes manorialism, feudalism, Christianity all together.
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Everyone came out to greet him, big parade. A diplomatic mission?
No, the Byzantine empire was on the verge of bankruptcy. They had tried to reclaim the west and lost. They had to pay off the Persians to keep them from attacking and they were beset on all sides by Muslims. They came to Rome to rob it blind. They took whatever was left in the treasury (not much), and he had his men strip every bit of lead and bronze off every fixture that they could find. They used it to make fitting for shields, armor, horse rigging, etc. And the lead was for pellets that were slung at armies.
Most of the stonework of Rome was held together with lead clamps. The Byzantines took these, so everything in Rome began to fall apart. From figuratively to literally.
And the lead? Most of the building were made out of wood, but were protected with sheets of lead and all of the gutters and downspouts were made out of lead, as were all the pipes that distributed water through the city.
The slabs that held back the Tiber river were made out of stone. During the next flood, the entire bank collapsed, taking with it most of the nearby merchant district and all of the warehouses. Houses, now unprotected, began to rot and roofs caved in.
Without water coming in through the pipes, the sewers began quickly to become clogged.
The main sewer of the entire city, the Cloaca Maxima, ran beneath the form. When it finally stopped up, all of
The bases of feudalism is best described as a social system in Europe throughout the Middle Ages where individuals worked and battled for upper class who gave them protection and the use of the land in return for their services (Merriam-Webster). “Feudalism” is not a medieval term and not even a translation of a medieval concept (Abels 2010; Brown 2010; Bouchard 1998). In our day and time Feudalism would be difficult and baffling in several ways, but some may feel that we would benefit from it.
The simplistic perception of capitalist society varies greatly among Smith and Marx. Smith believed that capitalism is a mechanism designed to curb man's selfishness and put it to work for the general good of all (Baumol, 1976). Conversely, Marx believed that capitalism is based on neither good nor evil, but a product of historical circumstances or experience (Baumol, 1976). Marx also believed that the law of motion in capitalism frustrates, rather than facilitates, the individual ends (wealth). Marx believed that wealth divides capitalists by class, and that workers must develop in a universal class (Levine, 1998). Marx also disagreed with Smith in believing that production must cease to be a labor process if it
Document 1) A: The Feudalism provided protection and military services for their families. Nobles agreed to give their loyalty to the king. As the peasants worked the land for the knights and nobles and which they gave to them was protection and a portion of the harvest to feed their families. Document 2)
HOOK……... CHANGE UP-> The period of transition from Roman times to the Renaissance was known as the Medieval period or Middle Ages. Small, weak kingdoms--- with the exception of Charlemagne’s empire--- emerged, and life was organized around feudalism, the manorial system, and the Christian Church. Charlemagne was able spread Christianity to outer parts of his empire, but was unable to control all of his empire successfully without it falling apart. This is where the idea of feudalism was brought about.
But at war they were unloyal and would fight against Rome. One of Rome’s causes to fall was it grew to big to protect. The borders of Rome became hard to protect, and had grown to large for it to be protected at the level needed. According to Doc 2, “Borders became difficult to secure and the amount of gold needed to maintain roads and perform routine maintenance was never enough.”
The middle ages era is best labeled under “The Dark Ages” and “The Age of Feudalism”. In this time I believe that those labels work the best and are considered the most abundant that happened between 500 and 1400 in Europe. With all that happened then there is also a hand full of information to provide you with. “The dark ages” happened and scared the world. “The age of feudalism” changed our world later on giving us information to well control the world and not let it go into complete anarchy.
The Homage Oath taken by John of Toul,” I will aid the Count of Champagne in my own person” (doc 2). This means that the person has an oath to take and his was to help the knights who were hurt. This quote was chosen because the king would grant you land but you had to give something back. Going on with the document, Feudal obligations “ Vassal to lord, loyalty, military service, and ransom, if needed” (doc 4). This is what the vassal will have to give to the lord if the lord gives land to the vassal. This proves. The Age of feudalism was when kings were in power and can give out land that he couldn’t take care of by
These concepts that Marx promotes, increase in prevalence amongst the various, current government systems. In regards to capitalism, Marx gives the warning of merely having
Since flooding was a regular weather occurrence, officials needed to keep the new canals dry enough to be able to capture water so they pumped them continuously to clear them out. However, this proactive measure on caused the city to subside. “As swampy areas were drained, reclaimed land sank; the more the city sank, the more it flooded, and the deeper the canals and more pumping that was needed to keep it dry” (Layzer pg. 534).
In the following section, I will define terms that Karl Marx used in his works. The term bourgeois is defined as the owners of the means of production. In oppose to bourgeoisie, the proletarian or the wage-earner is defined as “a class of labourers who live only as long as they find work, and who find work only as long as their labour increases capital” (I. Craib, Classical Social Theory, 99). Economic is defined as relating to the process or system by which goods and services are produced, sold, and bought (Merriam-Webster, 2016). The economic process that we will mainly focus on is capitalism. In a capitalist society, the main goal of any firms is simply to make profits for the owner. In the following essay, I will attempt to explain why do
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883) was a revolutionary German economic theorist and communist with many publications on sociology, economics and politics. Many of his writings can be used and applied into the media. Marx stated that in prehistoric times, people had no concept of private ownership, and everything was shared freely. There was no government to rule over everyone, but small tribes of people who each had their own leaders. This was known as primitive communism. As time went by, people became greedy and craved wealth. Private ownership of land led to the class system developing, with the upper class owning the land that the lower classes lived on and worked off. This became the feudal system, which was headed by a king. This system suited the upper class however it also meant that the lower class was always kept at the bottom, with no way of moving up from their positions. Industrialisation in the 1700’s meant that power in society fell into the hands of the wealthy, as they owned the land and had the money to build factories,
Damages to homes and buildings were caused by the pressure of the water pressing against the walls causing
Feudalism, as a decentralized political system, flourished in Medieval Europe. In this essay, the main political and economic characteristics of Feudalism will be mentioned, while discussing the main historical factors to the rise and fall of feudalism.
Marx seen the economy as the basis of society and called this the infrastructure, he saw the institutions of society such as the political system, the education system, the mass media, religion and even family as developing out of the economic system which he called the superstructure which was shaped by the base (infrastructure), the means of production (everything required to produce), machines, factories, land and raw materials all owned by the bourgeoisie.
In more specific terms, Marx sketches the development of the capitalist bourgeoisie society from feudal society.