i know a good number of us have been listening to Hell on Earth and while it's been a decent primer for the sequence of events---the takes are quite spicy for historiography heads

here are the questions for the class:

What is Feudalism?

When did Feudalism End?

  • Abraxiel
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    2 years ago

    A power structure composed of contracts between individuals for military obligations in exchange for control of land and rights to levy taxes on its occupants. The structure is hierarchical in nature and the contracts are hereditary. The ideological underpinning of feudalism in Europe rests on the authority granted to rulers by the Catholic Church. Of course, it existed because it was wedded to the functional economic order of manorialism.