Fuedalism

Fuedalism There are many different views on how feudalism affected the “Middle Ages”. Some people believe it was genius while others think it was a disaster. There is only one thing that is truly certain about feudalism and that is that it had political, social and economic impacts. Feudalism was developed to secure the alliance between a feudal lord and an ordinary peasant. The feudal lord would give a section of land to a “fief” and in return, the peasant would pledge his full allegiance to the lord. In document, nineteen it is stated that, “the principle means of securing the allegiance of the noble was by a gift of land”. The only means that held the lord and the fief together was a mutual agreement. Document 22 supports this, “…the feudal relationship was essentially a contract between lord and vassals which was defined and enforced by mutual agreement…”. Feudalism gave the power to the lords. They could control the peasants and expected complete obedience in return. In document four a soldier speaks of his lord. “And so long as I live I ought to provide service and honor to you, suitably to my free condition; and I shall not during feudalism, lord, land, document, power, feudal, thing, supports, return, people, peasant, others, mutual, means, life, impacts, fief, economic, during, contract, condemned, between, allegiance, 44, withdraw, while, weakened, way, views, vassals, upper, under, unanimously, truly, together