WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Feudalism in Medieval Europe was a land-based form of government and system of exchange between a landholding feudal lord and vassals. The feudal lord-vassal relationship often began with a homage ceremony in which the vassal pledged an oath of fidelity (fealty) to the lord.

Detailed explanation-2: -vassal, in feudal society, one invested with a fief in return for services to an overlord. Some vassals did not have fiefs and lived at their lord’s court as his household knights. Certain vassals who held their fiefs directly from the crown were tenants in chief and formed the most important feudal group, the barons.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the feudal structure, a lord, who owned the fief (land) offered limited land tenure rights to vassals. The state of vassalage, or subordination to the lord, was entered into ceremoniously by virtue of a pledge of homage and an oath of fidelity made by the vassal to the lord.

Detailed explanation-4: -A feudal system (also known as feudalism) is a type of social and political system in which landholders provide land to tenants in exchange for their loyalty and service.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.