ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The feudal system was based on rights and obligations. In exchange for military protection and other services, a lord, or landowner, granted land called a fief. The person receiving a fief was called a vassal. Charles the Simple, the lord, and Rollo, the vassal, showed how this two-sided bargain worked.

Detailed explanation-2: -Feudalism was the medieval model of government predating the birth of the modern nation-state. Feudal society is a military hierarchy in which a ruler or lord offers mounted fighters a fief (medieval beneficium), a unit of land to control in exchange for a military service.

Detailed explanation-3: -Man-at-Arms-A soldier holding his land, generally 60-120 acres, specifically in exchange for military service. Sometimes called a Yeoman. Manor-Estate held by a lord and farmed by tenants who owed him rents and services, and whose relations with him were governed by his manorial court.

Detailed explanation-4: -A feudal contract was the agreement between a nobleman and a king or queen in which the nobleman pledged his allegiance and military service to the monarch in exchange for land or protection from invading countries.