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The adjective feudal was in use by at least 1405, and the noun feudalism was in use by the end of the 18th century, [4] paralleling the French féodalité.. According to a classic definition by François Louis Ganshof (1944), [1] feudalism describes a set of reciprocal legal and military obligations of the warrior nobility that revolved around the key concepts of lords, vassals and fiefs, [1 ...
Shearing "use[s] this term in a limited sense to draw attention to the emergence of domains of mass private property that are 'gated' in a variety of ways". [7] [8] Lucia Zedner responds that this use of neo-feudalism is too limited in scope; Shearing's comparison does not draw parallels with earlier governance explicitly enough.
Feudalism is the model that modern Chinese Marxists [8] and Tokyo school historians use to identify China's recent past, neologized from the Chinese concept of fengjian [9] (which means to allocate a region or piece of land to an individual, establishing him as the ruler of that region), [10] a term used to designate the multi-state system ...
The early history of feudalism in Guernsey is marked by the establishment and consolidation of feudal lordships, deeply rooted in the island's Norman heritage. The period before 1248 saw the foundation of the primary feudal structure that would shape Guernsey's social and political landscape for centuries.
The legal concept of land tenure in the Middle Ages has become known as the feudal system that has been widely used throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia Minor.The lords who received land directly from the Crown, or another landowner, in exchange for certain rights and obligations were called tenants-in-chief.
Feudalism took root in England with William of Normandy's conquest in 1066. Over a century earlier, before the unification of England, the seven relatively small individual English kingdoms, known collectively as the Heptarchy , maintained an unsteady relationship of raids, ransoms, and truces with Vikings from Denmark and Normandy from around ...
The book's key purpose, discussed in the introduction, is to advance discussion of the origins of feudalism.Whereas Georges Duby and his successors had argued from the 1950s that the 'feudal revolution' began in France around the year 1000, but Dominique Barthélemy in the 1990s had led an argument that many of the changes happened around 900, but became obvious in the surviving source ...
Power struggles between ruler and estates were comparable to similar events in the history of the British and French parliaments. The Swabian League , a significant regional power in its part of Germany during the 15th Century, also had its own kind of Estates, a governing Federal Council comprising three Colleges: those of Princes, Cities, and ...