WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A fief (/fiːf/; Latin: feudum) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law. It consisted of a form of property holding or other rights granted by an overlord to a vassal, who held it in fealty or “in fee” in return for a form of feudal allegiance, services, and/or payments.

Detailed explanation-2: -fiefs: Heritable property or rights granted by an overlord to a vassal. homage: In the Middle Ages this was the ceremony in which a feudal tenant or vassal pledged reverence and submission to his feudal lord, receiving in exchange the symbolic title to his new position.

Detailed explanation-3: -The manor was the lord’s estate. During the Middle Ages, the manor system was the basic economic arrangement. The manor system rested on a set of rights and obligations between a lord and his serfs. The lord provided the serfs with housing, farmland, and protection from bandits.

Detailed explanation-4: -In exchange for their services, most often serving as a knight to the lord, vassals were granted a fief. Fiefs are small portions of land which were granted to vassals of a lord for acts of importance. They were part of a larger manor. Fiefs are very commonly associated with the system of feudalism.

Detailed explanation-5: -Vassals were people who worked the vast plots of land that were held by lords, who though much fewer in number, held all the wealth and power. In days of yore, vassals pledged devotion to feudal lords, who were the landowners, in exchange for protection and use of the land–called a fief.