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political ,economic andsocial system inmedieval andearly modern Europe ; originally a form ofserfdom but later a looser system in whichland was administered via the localmanor .
Etymologies
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Feudalism or rather manorialism was a diffuse and decentralised order --- quite the opposite of what has been growing in lieu of it.
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Feudalism or rather manorialism was a diffuse and decentralised order --- quite the opposite of what has been growing in lieu of it.
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Since the economic power of the military elite rested on estates worked by peasants, feudalism and manorialism were inextricably linked.
c. 787-925 2001
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The pressures of Muslim, Magyar, and Viking invasions, combined with the civil wars among Charlemagne's descendants who could do little to halt those invasions, accelerated the disintegration of the Carolingian Empire and hastened the development of what modern students call feudalism and manorialism.
c. 787-925 2001
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Feudalism concerned the rights, powers, and lifestyle of the military elite; manorialism involved the services and obligations of the peasant classes.
c. 787-925 2001
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Agricultural development continued to be based on manorialism, and peasants remained tied to the land until the late 18th century.
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The abolition of manorialism (See July 22) required a new central bureaucracy to replace landlords 'judicial and police powers.
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OTOH it's true that the alternative to manorialism is simply that people with similar interests would tend to clump together and thus overcome many of the problems of random distribution.
Mises Dailies 2009
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Beginning with the decline of the Roman Empire, this course discusses German, Muslim, Viking and Magyar invasions, the development of Catholicism in Western Europe and of Eastern Orthodoxy in the Byzantine Empire, the Arabic contribution to mathematics, science, and philosophy and the institutions of feudalism and manorialism.
World History Blog 2009
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Beginning with the decline of the Roman Empire, this course discusses German, Muslim, Viking and Magyar invasions, the development of Catholicism in Western Europe and of Eastern Orthodoxy in the Byzantine Empire, the Arabic contribution to mathematics, science, and philosophy and the institutions of feudalism and manorialism.
World History Blog 2009
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