Vassal Lords Economic Control

contribute to their lords success. The serf would owe two to three days of work to his lord for payment, the freemen would pay rent instead (Bishop 235). Each villager owed the lord rent for his/her house. It was reckoned in pennies but usually paid in kind a few hens or pigs (Bishop 235). Without serfs and peasants feudalism would not of been possible Military was the primary basis of power in the feudal system. Elite status was based off of military power. Local leaders control political decisions

of wars against the Islamic world over the control of Jerusalem. The center of the story is Count Roland, a Christian knight from King Charles’ army, and the fight against King Marsilion and the Muslims of Saragossa of modern Spain. Due to the time in which it was written, the epic features the social, political, and economic system of feudalism. Feudalism was “based on the exchange of land for military service” (Alchin 1) between the king and his vassals. This system was used in Christian medieval

loss of control differently. Many of the empires in western Europe, like the Carolingian empire, experienced fragmentation and a lack of unification as locals of influential families began to take rule. With these local rulers, the borders of each empire vanished or became a blur. To illustrate, regions “as small as a few square miles” were under the control of various lords who in their right, acted as independent rulers (SH p.128). Even to the east, the Byzantines experienced a lack of control as the

There have been many different types of government systems throughout the history of mankind, but there was one especially important system in the middle ages. During the middle ages, the system of feudalism was very helpful and turned Europe into a better place. Like all systems, feudalism had a structure and this was called manorialism and in manorialism there were manors. In these manors were different roles that all were important to feudalism, but the role of a farmer was probably the most important

were both military and economic structures that feudalism operated on. The manor supported those structures using the payments and life of a peasant and by giving the income of a lord. The free peasant filled in the gap between classes and was neither in nobility, or in servitude. The economic and military system known as the feudal system relied on a combination of the workings of a manor as well as the role of the freeman peasant. The Middle Ages in Europe founded a economic and military system known

protect the land. The king expected his lord to supply him with a great army, in return from the king giving the lord land (Biel 9). The king had an official/sheriff put together a small army of knights that helped fulfill the king’s wishes throughout the kingdom. The sheriffs also collected a type of income tax for the King which helped the king fiance the armies that protected his kingdom (Biel 18). The King was the highest rank and he provided land for his vassals. The king divided his whole kingdom

system of interdependence, meaning that every layer of society depended on every other layer of the society. According to the Great Chain, some of the people such as Vassals, Lords, and Monarchs are always going to be better than other people such as the Serfs and Freemen. With all the power and wealth they had, the Church was able to control the chaos that the lower classes (Serfs) had been causing, by convincing them that’s the way God had wanted it to be by using the idea of The Great Chain of Being

resource  of  data,  it  is  believed  that  between  80‐90%  of  the  economic  activity  was  agriculture.  Nearly  everybody  therefore,  earned  a  living  through  agriculture  as  an  economic  activity.  The  economic structure prevailing then became known as Feudalism, a term which has come  to mean, an economic system based on Lordship (ownership) of vast Land (also known  as  the  ‘manor’  or  ‘estate’),  owned  by  a  senior  lord,  who  gave  the  right  of  cultivation  (fief)  to  a  lower 

systems? A: Feudalism, short for the feudal system, has long reaching roots that can be best described as vague in its founding. Feudalism was first found in the 8th century when the Frankish kingdom practiced the act of passing fiefs to lords under the control on the king. When the Frankish kingdom attacked northern Italy, Spain, and Germany, the idea of feudalism spread with these conquests. The last large step in the diffusion of feudalism was in 1066 when the normans took it to England, which

have been very unsuccessful if it weren't for blacksmiths work. Feudalism is also known as the feudal system, it was the economic and political system of this time, feudalism provided order in the society (Corrick 12-13). In this system the richest and the strongest held the most power (Biel 8). Feudalism was based on contracts, or feudal oaths, between lords and vassals (Biel 9). In feudalism, two nobles make an agreement,