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    Feudalism

    Feudalism was a combination of legal and military
    customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the
    9th and 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of
    structuring society around relationships

    derived from the
    holding of land in exchange for service or labour.
    Although derived from the Latin word feodum or feudum
    (fief), [1] 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 Middle Ages. In its
    classic definition, by François-Louis Ganshof (1944), [2]
    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.[2]
    A broader definition of feudalism, as described by Marc
    Bloch (1939), includes not only the obligations of the
    warrior nobility but also those of all three estates of the
    realm: the nobility, the clergy, and the peasantry bound by
    manorialism ; this is sometimes referred to as a "feudal
    society". Since the publication of Elizabeth A. R. Brown's
    "The Tyranny of a Construct" (1974) and Susan
    Reynolds 's Fiefs and Vassals (1994), there has been
    ongoing inconclusive discussion among medieval
    historians as to whether feudalism is a useful construct
    for understanding medieval society. [3][4][5][6][7]
    Definition
    There is no commonly accepted modern definition of
    feudalism, at least among scholars. [3][6] The adjective
    feudal was coined in the 17th century, and the noun
    feudalism , often used in a political and propaganda
    context, was not coined until the 19th century, [3] from the
    French féodalité (feudality ), itself an 18th-century creation.
    In a classic definition by François-Louis Ganshof (1944),
    [2] 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,
    [2] though Ganshof himself noted that his treatment
    related only to the "narrow, technical, legal sense of the
    word".
    A broader definition, as described in Marc Bloch 's Feudal
    Society (1939), [8] includes not only the obligations of the
    warrior nobility but those of all three estates of the realm:
    the nobility, the clergy, and those living by their labour,
    most directly the peasantry bound by manorialism ; this
    order is often referred to as "feudal society", echoing
    Bloch's usage.
    Since the publication of Elizabeth A. R. Brown's "The
    Tyranny of a Construct" (1974) [4] and Susan Reynolds 's
    Fiefs and Vassals (1994), [5] there has been ongoing
    inconclusive discussion among medieval historians as to
    whether feudalism is a useful construct for understanding
    medieval society. [3][6][9]
    Outside a European context, the concept of feudalism is
    often used only by analogy (called semi-feudal ), most often
    in discussions of feudal Japan under the shoguns and
    sometimes medieval and Gondarine Ethiopia .[10]
    However, some have taken the feudalism analogy further,
    seeing feudalism (or traces of it) in places as diverse as
    ancient Egypt , the Parthian empire, the Indian
    subcontinent and the Antebellum and Jim Crow American
    South. [10]
    The term feudalism has also been applied—often
    inappropriately or pejoratively—to non-Western societies
    where institutions and attitudes similar to those of
    medieval Europe are perceived to prevail. [11] Some
    historians and political theorists believe that the term
    feudalism has been deprived of specific meaning by the
    many ways it has been used, leading them to reject it as a
    useful concept for understanding society. [3][4]
    Etymology
    Herr Reinmar von Zweter , a 13th-century
    Minnesinger , was depicted with his noble
    arms in Codex Manesse.
    The term "féodal" was used in 17th-century French legal
    treatises (1614) [12][13] and translated into English legal
    treatises as an adjective, such as "feodal government".
    In the 18th century, Adam Smith, seeking to describe
    economic systems, effectively coined the forms "feudal
    government" and "feudal system" in his book Wealth of
    Nations (1776). [14] In the 19th century the adjective
    "feudal" evolved into a noun: "feudalism". [14] The term
    feudalism is recent, first appearing in French in 1823,
    Italian in 1827, English in 1839, and in German in the
    second half of the 19th century. [14]
    The term "feudal" or "feodal" is derived from the medieval
    Latin word feodum . The etymology of feodum is complex
    with multiple theories, some suggesting a Germanic origin
    (the most widely held view) and others suggesting an
    Arabic origin. Initially in medieval Latin European
    documents, a land grant in exchange for service was
    called a beneficium (Latin). [15] Later, the term feudum , or
    feodum , began to replace beneficium in the documents. [15]
    The first attested instance of this is from 984, although
    more primitive forms were seen up to one-hundred years
    earlier. [15] The origin of the feudum and why it replaced
    beneficium has not been well established, but there are
    multiple theories, described below. [15]
    The most widely held theory is put forth by Marc Bloch .
    [15][16][17] Bloch said it is related to the Frankish term
    *fehu-ôd , in which *fehu means "cattle" and -ôd means
    "goods", implying "a moveable object of value." [16][17]
    Bloch explains that by the beginning of the 10th century it
    was common to value land in monetary terms but to pay
    for it with moveable objects of equivalent value, such as
    arms, clothing horses or food. This was known as feos , a
    term that took on the general meaning of paying for
    something in lieu of money. This meaning was then
    applied to land itself, in which land was used to pay for
    fealty, such as to a vassal. Thus the old word feos
    meaning movable property changed little by little to feus
    meaning the exact opposite: landed property. [16][17] This
    Germanic origin theory was also shared by William Stubbs
    in the 19th century. [15][18]
    Another theory was put forward by Archibald R. Lewis .[15]
    Lewis said the origin of 'fief' is not feudum (or feodum), but
    rather foderum , the earliest attested use being in
    Astronomus 's Vita Hludovici (840). [19] In that text is a
    passage about Louis the Pious that says annona militaris
    quas vulgo foderum vocant, which can be translated as
    "Louis forbade that military provender (which they
    popularly call "fodder") be furnished.." [15]
    Another theory by Alauddin Samarrai suggests an Arabic
    origin, from fuyū (the plural of fay , which literally means
    "the returned", and was used especially for 'land that has
    been conquered from enemies that did not fight'). [15][20]
    Samarrai's theory is that early forms of 'fief' include feo ,
    feu , feuz , feuum and others, the plurality of forms strongly
    suggesting origins from a loanword . Indeed, the first use
    of these terms is in Languedoc , one of the least Germanic
    areas of Europe and bordering Muslim Spain. Further, the
    earliest use of feuum (as a replacement for beneficium )
    can be dated to 899, the same year a Muslim base at
    Fraxinetum ( La Garde-Freinet ) in Provence was
    established. It is possible, Samarrai says, that French
    scribes, writing in Latin, attempted to transliterate the
    Arabic word fuyū (the plural of fay ), which was being used
    by the Muslim invaders and occupiers at the time,
    resulting in a plurality of forms – feo, feu, feuz, feuum and
    others – from which eventually feudum derived. Samarrai,
    however, also advises to handle this theory with care, as
    Medieval and Early Modern Muslim scribes often used
    etymologically "fanciful roots" in order to claim the most
    outlandish things to be of Arabian or Muslim origin.[20]
    History
    Feudalism, in its various forms, usually emerged as a
    result of the decentralization of an empire: especially in
    the Carolingian empires, which lacked the bureaucratic
    infrastructure [ clarification needed ] 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. [21]
    These acquired powers significantly diminished unitary
    power in these empires. Only when the infrastructure
    existed to maintain unitary power—as with the European
    monarchies—did Feudalism begin to yield to this new
    power structure and eventually disappear.[21]
    Classic feudalism
    See also Feudalism in England , Feudalism in the Holy
    Roman Empire and Examples of feudalism
    The classic François-Louis Ganshof version of feudalism
    [3][2] 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 in broad terms a noble who held 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
    use of the fief and the protection of the lord, the vassal
    would provide some sort of service to the lord. There were
    many varieties of feudal land tenure, consisting of military
    and non-military service. The obligations and
    corresponding rights between lord and vassal concerning
    the fief form the basis of the feudal relationship. [2]
    Vassalage
    Homage of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis
    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 , which was composed of the two-part act of
    homage and oath of fealty . During homage, the lord and
    vassal entered into a contract in which the vassal
    promised to fight for the lord at his command, whilst the
    lord agreed to protect the vassal from external forces.
    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. [22]
    Once the commendation ceremony was complete, the
    lord and vassal were in a feudal relationship with agreed
    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 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 could have other obligations to his
    lord, such as attendance at his court, whether manorial,
    baronial, both termed court baron , or at the king's court.
    [23]
    France in the late 15th century: a mosaic
    of feudal territories
    It could also involve the vassal providing "counsel", so
    that if the lord faced a major decision he would summon
    all his vassals and hold a council. At the level of the
    manor this might be a fairly mundane matter of
    agricultural policy, but also included sentencing by the
    lord for criminal offences, including capital punishment in
    some cases. Concerning the king's feudal court, such
    deliberation could include the question of declaring war.
    These are examples; depending on the period of time and
    location in Europe, feudal customs and practices varied;
    see examples of feudalism.
    The "Feudal Revolution" in France
    In its origin, the feudal grant of land had been seen in
    terms of a personal bond between lord and vassal, but
    with time and the transformation of fiefs into hereditary
    holdings, the nature of the system came to be seen as a
    form of "politics of land" (an expression used by the
    historian Marc Bloch ). The 11th century in France saw
    what has been called by historians a "feudal revolution" or
    "mutation" and a "fragmentation of powers" (Bloch) that
    was unlike the development of feudalism in England or
    Italy or Germany in the same period or later: [24] counties
    and duchies began to break down into smaller holdings
    as castellans and lesser seigneurs took control of local
    lands, and (as comital families had done before them)
    lesser lords usurped/privatized a wide range of
    prerogatives and rights of the state, most importantly the
    highly profitable rights of justice, but also travel dues,
    market dues, fees for using woodlands, obligations to use
    the lord's mill, etc. [25] (what Georges Duby called
    collectively the " seigneurie banale " [26] ). Power in this
    period became more personal. [27]
    This "fragmentation of powers" was not however
    systematic throughout France, and in certain counties
    (such as Flanders, Normandy, Anjou, Toulouse), counts
    were able to maintain control of their lands into the 12th
    century or later. [28] Thus, in some regions (like Normandy
    and Flanders), the vassal/feudal system was an effective
    tool for ducal and comital control, linking vassals to their
    lords; but in other regions, the system led to significant
    confusion, all the more so as vassals could and frequently
    did pledge themselves to two or more lords. In response
    to this, the idea of a " liege lord " was developed (where the
    obligations to one lord are regarded as superior) in the
    12th century. [29]
    End of European feudalism
    Further information: Abolition of feudalism in France
    Feudalism itself decayed and effectively disappeared in
    most of Western Europe by about 1500, [30][31] partly
    since the military power of kings shifted from armies
    consisting of the nobility to professional fighters
    (effectively reducing the nobility's power), but also
    because the Black Death reduced the nobility's hold on
    the lower classes. The system lingered on in parts of
    Central and Eastern Europe as late as the 1850s. Russia
    finally abolished serfdom in 1861. [32][33]
    However, even when the original feudal relationships had
    disappeared, there were many institutional remnants of
    feudalism left in place. Historian Georges Lefebvre
    explains how at an early stage of the French Revolution ,
    on just one night of 4 August 1789 France abolished the
    long-lasting remnants of the feudal order. It announced,
    "The National Assembly abolishes the feudal system
    entirely." Lefebvre explains:
    Originally the peasants were supposed to pay for the
    release of seigneurial dues; these dues affected more
    than a fourth of the farmland in France and provided most
    of the income of the large landowners. [35] The majority
    refused to pay and in 1793 the obligation was cancelled.
    Thus the peasants got their land free, and also no longer
    paid the tithe to the church. [36]
    Feudal society
    Main article: Manorialism
    Depiction of socage on the royal
    demesne in feudal England, c. 1310
    The phrase "feudal society" as defined by Marc Bloch [8]
    offers a wider definition than Ganshof's and includes
    within the feudal structure not only the warrior aristocracy
    bound by vassalage, but also the peasantry bound by
    manorialism, and the estates of the Church. Thus the
    feudal order embraces society from top to bottom,
    though the "powerful and well-differentiated social group
    of the urban classes" came to occupy a distinct position
    to some extent outside the classical feudal hierarchy.
    Historiography
    The idea of feudalism was unknown and the system it
    describes was not conceived of as a formal political
    system by the people living in the Medieval Period. This
    section describes the history of the idea of feudalism, how
    the concept originated among scholars and thinkers, how
    it changed over time, and modern debates about its use.
    Evolution of the concept
    The concept of a feudal state or period, in the sense of
    either a regime or a period dominated by lords who
    possess financial or social power and prestige, became
    widely held in the middle of the 18th century, as a result
    of works such as Montesquieu's De L'Esprit des Lois
    (1748; published in English as The Spirit of the Laws ), and
    Henri de Boulainvilliers’s Histoire des anciens Parlements
    de France (1737; published in English as An Historical
    Account of the Ancient Parliaments of France or States-
    General of the Kingdom, 1739). [14] In the 18th century,
    writers of the Enlightenment wrote about feudalism to
    denigrate the antiquated system of the Ancien Régime , or
    French monarchy. This was the Age of Enlightenment
    when writers valued reason and the Middle Ages were
    viewed as the " Dark Ages ". Enlightenment authors
    generally mocked and ridiculed anything from the "Dark
    Ages" including feudalism, projecting its negative
    characteristics on the current French monarchy as a
    means of political gain. [37] For them "feudalism" meant
    seigneurial privileges and prerogatives. When the French
    Constituent Assembly abolished the "feudal regime" in
    August 1789 this is what was meant.
    Adam Smith used the term "feudal system" to describe a
    social and economic system defined by inherited social
    ranks, each of which possessed inherent social and
    economic privileges and obligations. In such a system
    wealth derived from agriculture, which was arranged not
    according to market forces but on the basis of customary
    labour services owed by serfs to landowning nobles. [38]
    Marx
    Karl Marx also used the term in the 19th century in his
    analysis of society's economic and political development,
    describing feudalism (or more usually feudal society or
    the feudal mode of production ) as the order coming
    before capitalism . For Marx, what defined feudalism was
    the power of the ruling class (the aristocracy ) in their
    control of arable land, leading to a class society based
    upon the exploitation of the peasants who farm these
    lands, typically under serfdom and principally by means of
    labour, produce and money rents. [39] Marx thus defined
    feudalism primarily by its economic characteristics.
    He also took it as a paradigm for understanding the
    power-relationships between capitalists and wage-
    labourers in his own time: ‘in pre-capitalist systems it was
    obvious that most people did not control their own
    destiny — under feudalism, for instance, serfs had to work
    for their lords. Capitalism seems different because people
    are in theory free to work for themselves or for others as
    they choose. Yet most workers have as little control over
    their lives as feudal serfs’. [40] Some later Marxist
    theorists (e.g. Eric Wolf ) have applied this label to include
    non-European societies, grouping feudalism together with
    Imperial Chinese and pre-Columbian Incan societies as
    'tributary'.
    Later studies
    In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Horace
    Round and Frederic William Maitland , both historians of
    medieval Britain, arrived at different conclusions as to the
    character of English society before the Norman Conquest
    in 1066. Round argued that the Normans had brought
    feudalism with them to England, while Maitland contended
    that its fundamentals were already in place in Britain
    before 1066. The debate continues today, but a
    consensus viewpoint is that England before the Conquest
    had commendation (which embodied some of the
    personal elements in feudalism) while William the
    Conqueror introduced a modified and stricter northern
    French feudalism to England incorporating (1086) oaths of
    loyalty to the king by all who held by feudal tenure, even
    the vassals of his principal vassals (Holding by feudal
    tenure meant that vassals must provide the quota of
    knights required by the king or a money payment in
    substitution).
    In the 20th century, two outstanding historians offered
    still more widely differing perspectives. The French
    historian Marc Bloch , arguably the most influential 20th-
    century medieval historian., [39] approached feudalism not
    so much from a legal and military point of view but from a
    sociological one, presenting in Feudal Society (1939;
    English 1961) a feudal order not limited solely to the
    nobility. It is his radical notion that peasants were part of
    the feudal relationship that sets Bloch apart from his
    peers: while the vassal performed military service in
    exchange for the fief, the peasant performed physical
    labour in return for protection – both are a form of feudal
    relationship. According to Bloch, other elements of society
    can be seen in feudal terms; all the aspects of life were
    centered on "lordship", and so we can speak usefully of a
    feudal church structure, a feudal courtly (and anti-courtly)
    literature, and a feudal economy. [39]
    In contradistinction to Bloch, the Belgian historian
    François-Louis Ganshof defined feudalism from a narrow
    legal and military perspective, arguing that feudal
    relationships existed only within the medieval nobility
    itself. Ganshof articulated this concept in Qu'est-ce que la
    féodalité? ("What is feudalism?", 1944; translated in
    English as Feudalism). His classic definition of feudalism
    is widely accepted today among medieval scholars, [39]
    though questioned both by those who view the concept in
    wider terms and by those who find insufficient uniformity
    in noble exchanges to support such a model.
    Although he was never formally a student in the circle of
    scholars around Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre that came
    to be known as the Annales School , Georges Duby was an
    exponent of the Annaliste tradition. In a published version
    of his 1952 doctoral thesis entitled La société aux XIe et
    XIIe siècles dans la région mâconnaise ( Society in the 11th
    and 12th centuries in the Mâconnais region), and working
    from the extensive documentary sources surviving from
    the Burgundian monastery of Cluny , as well as the
    dioceses of Mâcon and Dijon , Duby excavated the complex
    social and economic relationships among the individuals
    and institutions of the Mâconnais region and charted a
    profound shift in the social structures of medieval society
    around the year 1000. He argued that in early 11th
    century, governing institutions—particularly comital courts
    established under the Carolingian monarchy—that had
    represented public justice and order in Burgundy during
    the 9th and 10th centuries receded and gave way to a
    new feudal order wherein independent aristocratic knights
    wielded power over peasant communities through strong-
    arm tactics and threats of violence.
    Challenges to the feudal model
    In 1974, U.S. historian Elizabeth A. R. Brown [4] rejected
    the label feudalism as an anachronism that imparts a false
    sense of uniformity to the concept. Having noted the
    current use of many, often contradictory, definitions of
    feudalism , she argued that the word is only a construct
    with no basis in medieval reality, an invention of modern
    historians read back "tyrannically" into the historical
    record. Supporters of Brown have suggested that the term
    should be expunged from history textbooks and lectures
    on medieval history entirely. [39] In Fiefs and Vassals: The
    Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted (1994), [5] Susan Reynolds
    expanded upon Brown's original thesis. Although some
    contemporaries questioned Reynolds's methodology,
    other historians have supported it and her argument.[39]
    Reynolds argues:
    Too many models of feudalism used for comparisons,
    even by Marxists, are still either constructed on the
    16th-century basis or incorporate what, in a Marxist
    view, must surely be superficial or irrelevant features
    from it. Even when one restricts oneself to Europe and
    to feudalism in its narrow sense it is extremely
    doubtful whether feudo-vassalic institutions formed a
    coherent bundle of institutions or concepts that were
    structurally separate from other institutions and
    concepts of the time. [41]
    The term feudal has also been applied to non-Western
    societies in which institutions and attitudes similar to
    those of medieval Europe are perceived to have prevailed
    (See Examples of feudalism). Japan has been extensively
    studied in this regard. [42] Friday notes that in the 21st
    century historians of Japan rarely invoke feudalism;
    instead of looking at similarities, specialists attempting
    comparative analysis concentrate on fundamental
    differences. [43] Ultimately, critics say, the many ways the
    term feudalism has been used have deprived it of specific
    meaning, leading some historians and political theorists to
    reject it as a useful concept for understanding society. [39]
    Richard Abels notes that "Western Civilization and World
    Civilization textbooks now shy away from the term
    'feudalism'." [44]
    See also
    Bastard
    feudalism
    Cestui que
    English feudal
    barony
    Feudal duties
    Feudalism in
    the Holy Roman
    Empire
    Lehnsmann
    Majorat
    Neo-feudalism
    Nulle terre sans
    seigneur
    Protofeudalism
    Quia Emptores
    Scottish feudal
    barony
    Statutes of
    Mortmain
    Suzerainty
    Vassal
    Military:
    Knights Medieval
    warfare
    Non-European:
    Fengjian
    (Chinese)
    Hacienda
    Feudal Japan
    Feudalism in
    Pakistan
    Indian
    feudalism
    Mandala
    (political model)
    Ziamet
    Zemene
    Mesafint
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