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HIGH MIDDLE AGES AND FEUDALISM (FEUDAL SYSTEM (Feudal monarchy (royal…
HIGH MIDDLE AGES AND FEUDALISM
FEUDAL SYSTEM
origins of it
Division of carolingian empire
Europe suffered attacks
Monarchs didn´t have resources
ask nobles for help
Monarch divided lands
King was weak
Definitions
fiefdom
land owned by feudal lord
serfs
worked in the fiefdom
power
Nobility increased
military aid
armies
insecurity
vaassalage relationships
vassal
promised his loyalty
Feudal monarchy
royal officials
served the monarch
host
army
court
advised king in governamental matters
cancery
writting decisions
Characteristics of the fiefdom
castle
situated next to a river(easy to defend)
house of the feudal lord
demesne
lord land
village
situated near to a castle
house o farmers and peasants
places of communal use
ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
economy
agriculture
techniques
irrigation techniques
mouldboard plough
three-yearcrop rotation
manure
livestock
wood and leather
transport animals
increase of production
population grew
products from animals
milk
cheese
eggs
honey
society
head is the king
nobility
higher
dukes, marquises and counts
lower
knights
clergy
upper
bishops and abots
lower
priest and monks
worst positions in society
peasants
worked for the rest
serfs
attached the fief
THE CHURCH
organisation
pope
secular clergy: bishops and priest
regular clergy:abbots,monks and nuns
political power
were very close
pope excomunicate
economic power
monarchs and nobles give lands
tithe
art
romanesque
11th to 13th
monarch and nobility promote
extend in pilgrimage zones
rural
lack of windows
painting and sculpture
symbolic images