ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -A feudal society has three distinct social classes: a king, a noble class (which could include nobles, priests, and princes) and a peasant class. Historically, the king owned all the available land, and he portioned out that land to his nobles for their use. The nobles, in turn, rented out their land to peasants.

Detailed explanation-2: -Feudalism had two enormous effects on medieval society. Feudalism discouraged unified government and it also discouraged trade and economic growth.

Detailed explanation-3: -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. The individual who accepted this land became a vassal, and the man who granted the land become known as his liege or his lord.

Detailed explanation-4: -The feudal system is easy to understand if you think of it as a pyramid. As mentioned, the king was at the top of the pyramid and the head of the feudal society. Under the king were the vassals, or nobles who were given land and castles by the king for their promise of protection and loyalty to him in time of war.

Detailed explanation-5: -Monarchs. Nobles. Knights. Peasants/Serf.