The feudal system in Medieval Europe
Texto del Guión Gráfico
- Do you know what feudalism was about?
- Of course!, Under the feudal system all land in a kingdom belonged to the king. He parcelled out large chunks to great Lords in exchange for their military and political support.
- I read that it formed a hierarchical network below the king of earls, barons, lords of the manor and villains, all bound together by pairs of reciprocal obligations.and the lowest operational unit in this system was the manor, controlled by a lord
- That's right but not all manors were held necessarily by lay lords rendering military service to their superior. a substantial number of manors belonged directly to the king. An even greater proportion were held by bishops and abbots.
- Also medieval manors varied in size but were typically small and every noble had at least one manor; great nobles might have several manors, usually scattered throughout the country; and even the king depended on his many manors for the food supply of the court.
- Did you know that England, during the period following the Norman Conquest, contained more than nine thousand of these manorial estates.
- Additionally, A peasant, instead of having his land in one compact mass, had it split up into a large number of small strips scattered over the manor, and separated by banks of unploughed turf.
- Besides his holding of farmland, each peasant had certain rights over the non-arable land of the manors - the common land, but he also enjoyed the privilege of taking so much wood from the forest for fuel and building purposes.
- wait, what were the effects of feudalism by the way?
- Well, feudalism emerged different forms of constitutional government, also new ideas led to the resistance to and defiance of the feudal lord. The rights of the majorities and the development of early representative institutions emerged.
- So to sum up, the Feudal System included a complex system of rights and obligations. The right to hunt was highly valued by nobles. The severest and cruellest penalties were imposed on "villains" who killed game on the lands owned by a lord.
- Yes, and don't forget about the Manor House that was residential property and differed from castles in that it was not built for the purpose of attack or defence, and it varied in size, according to the wealth of the lord
Más de 30 millones de guiones gráficos creados