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Feudalism was a set of political and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the ninth and fifteenth centuries.Although derived from the Latin word feodum (fief),then in use,the term feudalism and the system it describes were not conceived of as a formal political system by the people living in the Medieval Period.In its classic definition,by François-Louis Ganshof (1944),feudalism describes a set of reciprocal legal and military obligations among the warrior nobility,revolving around the three key concepts of lords,vassals and fiefs.There is also a broader definition,as described by Marc Bloch (1939),that includes not only warrior nobility but the peasantry bonds of manorialism,sometimes referred to as a "feudal society".Because of multiple definitions and other issues,many now see the concept of feudalism as deprived of specific meaning,which has led in recent decades to many historians and political theorists rejecting feudalism as a useful way for understanding society.
Definition
There is no broadly accepted modern definition of feudalism.The terms feudalism or feudal system were coined in the early modern period (17th century),and were often used in a political and propaganda context.By the mid-20th century,François Louis Ganshof's Feudalism,3rd ed.(1964; originally published in French,1947),became a traditional definition of feudalism.Since at least the 1960s,concurrent with when Marc Bloch's Feudal Society (1939) was first translated into English in 1961,many medieval historians have included a broader social aspect,adding the peasantry bonds of manorialism,sometimes referred to as a "feudal society".Since the 1970s,when Elizabeth A.R.Brown published The Tyranny of a Construct (1974),many have re-examined the evidence and concluded that feudalism is an unworkable term and should be removed entirely from scholarly and educational discussion,or at least used only with severe qualification and warning.
Outside a European context,the concept of feudalism is normally used only by analogy (called semi-feudal),most often in discussions of Japan under the shoguns,and sometimes medieval and Gondarine Ethiopia.However,some have taken the feudalism analogy further,seeing it in places as diverse as ancient Egypt,the Parthian empire,the Indian subcontinent,and the antebellum American South.
The term feudalism has also been applied鈥攐ften inappropriately or pejoratively鈥攖o non-Western societies where institutions and attitudes similar to those of medieval Europe are perceived to prevail.[8] Some historians and political theorists believe that the many ways the term feudalism has been used has deprived it of specific meaning,leading them to reject it as a useful concept for understanding society.
Classic feudalism
The classic François-Louis Ganshof version of feudalism describes a set of reciprocal legal and military obligations among the warrior nobility,revolving around the three key concepts of lords,vassals and fiefs.A lord was a noble who owned land,a vassal was a person who was granted possession of the land by the lord,and the land was known as a fief.In exchange for the fief,the vassal would provide military service to the lord.The obligations and relations between lord,vassal and fief form the basis of feudalism.
Before a lord could grant land (a fief) to someone,he had to make that person a vassal.This was done at a formal and symbolic ceremony called a commendation ceremony composed of the two-part act of homage and oath of fealty.During homage,the lord and vassal entered a contract in which the vassal promised to fight for the lord at his command.Fealty comes from the Latin fidelitas and denotes the fidelity owed by a vassal to his feudal lord."Fealty" also refers to an oath that more explicitly reinforces the commitments of the vassal made during homage.Such an oath follows homage.
Once the commendation was complete,the lord and vassal were now in a feudal relationship with agreed-upon mutual obligations to one another.The vassal's principal obligation to the lord was to "aid",or military service.Using whatever equipment the vassal could obtain by virtue of the revenues from the fief,the vassal was responsible to answer to calls to military service on behalf of the lord.This security of military help was the primary reason the lord entered into the feudal relationship.In addition,the vassal sometimes had to fulfill other obligations to the lord.One of those obligations was to provide the lord with "counsel",so that if the lord faced a major decision,such as whether or not to go to war,he would summon all his vassals and hold a council.The vassal may have been required to yield a certain amount of his farm's output to his lord.
Depending on the period of time and location,feudal customs and practices varied,see examples of feudalism.
Feudal society
Main article:Feudal society
'Feudal society' expands on classic Ganshof.It includes in the feudal structure not only the warrior aristocracy,but the peasantry bonds of manorialism.This view was most famously put forth by Marc Bloch.
Emergence and Disappearance of Feudalism
Feudalism traditionally emerges as a result of the decentralization of an empire.This was particularly the case within the Japanese and Carolingian (European) empires which both lacked the bureaucratic infrastructure necessary to support cavalry without the ability to allocate land to these mounted troops.Mounted soldiers began to secure a system of hereditary rule over their allocated land and their power over the territory came to encompass the social,political,judicial,and economic spheres as well.These acquired powers significantly reduced the presence of centralized power in these empires.Only when the infrastructure existed to maintain centralized power--as with the European monarchies--did Feudalism begin to yield to this new organized power and eventually disappear.
Definition
There is no broadly accepted modern definition of feudalism.The terms feudalism or feudal system were coined in the early modern period (17th century),and were often used in a political and propaganda context.By the mid-20th century,François Louis Ganshof's Feudalism,3rd ed.(1964; originally published in French,1947),became a traditional definition of feudalism.Since at least the 1960s,concurrent with when Marc Bloch's Feudal Society (1939) was first translated into English in 1961,many medieval historians have included a broader social aspect,adding the peasantry bonds of manorialism,sometimes referred to as a "feudal society".Since the 1970s,when Elizabeth A.R.Brown published The Tyranny of a Construct (1974),many have re-examined the evidence and concluded that feudalism is an unworkable term and should be removed entirely from scholarly and educational discussion,or at least used only with severe qualification and warning.
Outside a European context,the concept of feudalism is normally used only by analogy (called semi-feudal),most often in discussions of Japan under the shoguns,and sometimes medieval and Gondarine Ethiopia.However,some have taken the feudalism analogy further,seeing it in places as diverse as ancient Egypt,the Parthian empire,the Indian subcontinent,and the antebellum American South.
The term feudalism has also been applied鈥攐ften inappropriately or pejoratively鈥攖o non-Western societies where institutions and attitudes similar to those of medieval Europe are perceived to prevail.[8] Some historians and political theorists believe that the many ways the term feudalism has been used has deprived it of specific meaning,leading them to reject it as a useful concept for understanding society.
Classic feudalism
The classic François-Louis Ganshof version of feudalism describes a set of reciprocal legal and military obligations among the warrior nobility,revolving around the three key concepts of lords,vassals and fiefs.A lord was a noble who owned land,a vassal was a person who was granted possession of the land by the lord,and the land was known as a fief.In exchange for the fief,the vassal would provide military service to the lord.The obligations and relations between lord,vassal and fief form the basis of feudalism.
Before a lord could grant land (a fief) to someone,he had to make that person a vassal.This was done at a formal and symbolic ceremony called a commendation ceremony composed of the two-part act of homage and oath of fealty.During homage,the lord and vassal entered a contract in which the vassal promised to fight for the lord at his command.Fealty comes from the Latin fidelitas and denotes the fidelity owed by a vassal to his feudal lord."Fealty" also refers to an oath that more explicitly reinforces the commitments of the vassal made during homage.Such an oath follows homage.
Once the commendation was complete,the lord and vassal were now in a feudal relationship with agreed-upon mutual obligations to one another.The vassal's principal obligation to the lord was to "aid",or military service.Using whatever equipment the vassal could obtain by virtue of the revenues from the fief,the vassal was responsible to answer to calls to military service on behalf of the lord.This security of military help was the primary reason the lord entered into the feudal relationship.In addition,the vassal sometimes had to fulfill other obligations to the lord.One of those obligations was to provide the lord with "counsel",so that if the lord faced a major decision,such as whether or not to go to war,he would summon all his vassals and hold a council.The vassal may have been required to yield a certain amount of his farm's output to his lord.
Depending on the period of time and location,feudal customs and practices varied,see examples of feudalism.
Feudal society
Main article:Feudal society
'Feudal society' expands on classic Ganshof.It includes in the feudal structure not only the warrior aristocracy,but the peasantry bonds of manorialism.This view was most famously put forth by Marc Bloch.
Emergence and Disappearance of Feudalism
Feudalism traditionally emerges as a result of the decentralization of an empire.This was particularly the case within the Japanese and Carolingian (European) empires which both lacked the bureaucratic infrastructure necessary to support cavalry without the ability to allocate land to these mounted troops.Mounted soldiers began to secure a system of hereditary rule over their allocated land and their power over the territory came to encompass the social,political,judicial,and economic spheres as well.These acquired powers significantly reduced the presence of centralized power in these empires.Only when the infrastructure existed to maintain centralized power--as with the European monarchies--did Feudalism begin to yield to this new organized power and eventually disappear.
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