Feudalism Def

Also called: feudal system the legal and social system that evolved in W Europe in the 8th and 9th centuries, in which vassals were protected and maintained by their lords, usually through the granting of fiefs, and were required to serve under them in war See also vassalage, fief. Feudalism was a set of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries, which, broadly defined, was a system for.

Sentence Examples. Feudalism was not at any time a national institution. Feudalism formed the starting-point also of the later social nobilities of Europe. The uniting of the personal and the land sides of feudalism came long after the conquest, and in a different way. Feudalism could not be established, however, until the great of the land had adopted them for themselves, and had begun to enter the clientage of others and to hold lands by the precarium tenure.

It is better to say that European feudalism is not to be found in England before the Conquest, not even in its beginnings.