3Ī vassal enters willingly into a relationship with an overlord, agreeing thereby to certain obligations and thus bonding with him by personal loyalty. Honor, loyalty and military service will, at last, constitute something that is, in medieval terms, called a vassal relationship. As much as this was an important element in the uprise of feudal society, what we call a fief was a special type of benefit a gift to the vassal in exchange for his military service.
Whilst the Roman law permitted that precarium be consumed until the provider chooses so, in Frankish law it became a sort of a land lease for a predetermined period of time. e., the land that is formally and legally owned by one individual, is possessed by some other individual. Cultivators that had no land or didn’t have enough, and had a desire to live off their work as farmers, went to see the overlord whom they would formally ask ( preces) for land in exchange for a compensation. In such conditions, they had to give away their land to the Church as insurance, after which the Church gave it back to them in a form of a gift ( beneficium). In times when the Western Roman Empire was at its last breaths, the life of small landowners was exceptionally hard. „The feudal society“ is a typical type of society where agriculture is a predominant type of economy and it was mostly developed in such circumstances. 1Īs to fully comprehend feudalism and its development, we shall go back to earlier periods. They implied a legal system of fiefs, which was at that time the only surviving part of the medieval system.
The first to have used the term „feudalism“ were English lawyers in the 17th century. These laws were typical of martial polity, a system that protected the man, and of non-existence of public government. Part one: The history of feudalism and its earliest formsīy the end of the 15th century, French language was introduced with a term féodalité which represented laws and customs that were effective in France as of the Carolingian period until the end of the Middle Ages.
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