ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In more economic contexts, feudalism was based upon a system in which peasants and slaves were required to fulfill certain obligations for their lord; by paying money rents, providing food renders, or working the land held directly in the lord’s hands (demesne).

Detailed explanation-2: -Britannica Dictionary definition of FEUDALISM. [noncount] : a social system that existed in Europe during the Middle Ages in which people worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and the use of land in return.

Detailed explanation-3: -feudalism, also called feudal system or feudality, French féodalité, historiographic construct designating the social, economic, and political conditions in western Europe during the early Middle Ages, the long stretch of time between the 5th and 12th centuries.

Detailed explanation-4: -Origins of Feudalism The word ‘feudalism’ derives from the medieval Latin terms feudalis, meaning fee, and feodum, meaning fief. The fee signified the land given (the fief) as a payment for regular military service.

Detailed explanation-5: -The main idea behind feudalism was to create a system in which along with land revenue, a standing army would be created for service. In other words feudalism was a system where the relationship in society was derived from the holding of land.