the feudal system
1the feudal system — Feudalism • • • Main Entry: ↑feud …
2demise of the feudal system — decline and fall of the feudal system (political and social system of medieval Europe) …
3feudal system — the social and economic system operating in England from the 11th century and in Scotland from the 12th century and having as its legal manifestation the holding (rather than ownership) of land via a hierarchical system of tenures. In England,… …
4feudal system — The system of feuds. A political and social system which prevailed throughout Europe during the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, and is supposed to have grown out of the peculiar usages and policy of the Teutonic nations who overran… …
5feudal system — The system of feuds. A political and social system which prevailed throughout Europe during the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, and is supposed to have grown out of the peculiar usages and policy of the Teutonic nations who overran… …
6feudal system — noun the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war • Syn: ↑feudalism • Derivationally related forms: ↑feudal (for: ↑feudalism), ↑feudalistic (for: ↑ …
7feudal system — The economic and social control of the medieval period, characterized by a stratification of the populace into classes of lords, men of arms, and serfs, its most important feature from the standpoint of the law being the system of land tenure.… …
8feudal system — the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal. [1770 80] * * * …
9Abolition of the han system — The nihongo|Abolition of the Han System and Establishment of the Prefecture System|廃藩置県|haihan chiken was an act, in 1871, of the new Meiji government of the Empire of Japan to replace the traditional feudal domain ( han ) system and to introduce …
10feudal system — feu′dal sys tem n. why the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal • Etymology: 1770–80 …
