Feudalism in Western Europe

Feudalism in Western Europe There have been many interpretations of Feudalism over the years. One interpretation incorporates a whole system of life, as Marc Bloch states. The other system explained Feudalism in more legal and political terms. This is the interpretation that is most commonly referred to. Feudalism was a system of political and military relationships existing among the members of the nobility in Western Europe during the seventeenth century. There are known to be …

…thousand acres of land. The land was shared so that every person had an equal share of good and poor. Many powerful men strove to assemble their own vassals, giving them benefices in return for their services. Some of the weaker landowners found themselves obligated to enter into vassalage and to concede their lands to the lord. The greater lords were expected to protect their vassals, as the vassals were expected to serve their benefactors.