feudal system in English

noun

political and social system of medieval Europe in which vassals were protected by lords whom they served in times of wa

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1. 13 Public opinion was against the old feudal system.

2. Coincidentally, the multitudinous barons had gradually built up the Feudal System

3. The Zhou appeared to have begun their rule under a semi-feudal system.

4. 9 Most Sinologist think that there is a feudal system, aristocracy, is China's medieval period.

5. His action brought peace to a turbulent feudal system and sowed the seeds of Catalan identity.

6. By this time the accumulated wealth of the feudal system within the British Isles is having its effect.

7. Under the feudal system, the land was held in trust and Burdened with the support of the soldiery

8. The Assizes established the large Sicilian bureaucracy and sought to maintain the feudal system under strict royal control.

9. Churchill was a remnant of a feudal system and his Contempt for progress expressed itself in his attitude towards workers.

10. It remained frozen in a feudal system which had decayed but not died with the end of the rubber boom. Sentencedict.com

11. The earliest political system used during the conquista period was the encomienda system, which resembled the feudal system in medieval Europe.

12. Cistercian Ideals, Cistercian Realities: The foundation had its ups and downs, complicated by their desire to disengage monasticism from the feudal system

13. 15 Under the feudal system, the vast majority of people eked out a living as peasants in abject ignorance and poverty.

14. It did so through the feudal system, in which most inhabitants of Europe were subject to a lord, then to a king.

15. The combination of agnatic kinship and a feudal system of obligation has been seen as creating the highland clan system, evident in records from the 13th century.

16. In return the Church was given land (the basis of power in the feudal system), and its members were addressed as “my lord Abbot” or “my lord Bishop.”

17. In the feudal system of Europe, a Baron was a “man” who pledged his loyalty and service to his superior in return for land that he could pass to his heirs

18. Champerty is maintenance for profit, and these doctrines originated during the time of the English medieval feudal system as a preventative measure to guard against litigious barons and provide for equal

19. Implementing a Neo-Feudal system of government that more closely resembles the dark ages, the Anarchs and a handful of other vampires (plus some Independent Clans) have created the Baronies of LATMA

20. Corvee (n.) "day's unpaid labor due to a lord by vassals under French feudal system" (abolished 1776), mid-14c., from Old French Corvee (12c., Modern French corvée), from Late Latin corrogata (opera) "requested (work)," from fem

21. The surname Bier was first found in the region of the Rhineland-Palatinate, where the ancestors of bearers of the Bier surname were an integral part of the local communities, and contributed to the development of the Feudal System that became the backbone of early European society

22. The Baronage of Scotland is an Order of Nobility, derived partly from the allodial system of territorial tribalism, in which the patriarch held his land "under God", and derived partly from the later feudal system of Western Europe, as a developed form of tribalism, in which the territory came to be held "of, and under" the King in an organised