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The Feudalism and high middle ages (The feudal system (Feudalism…
The Feudalism and high middle ages
The feudal system
Feudalism
Political
System
Social
System
Established
Christian kingdoms
During the high middle ages
económic
System
The origins of Feudalism
Division of the Carolingian Empire
Europe suffered
attacks
villages and cities were sacked
Monarch didn´t have
resources to
help their subjects
Ask the nobles for help
In the beginning
Monarch divided
Lands among the nobles
King was weak
So nobles managed to
power became hereditary
Absolute power over
The inhabitants
Justice
Collecting taxes
Feudal system
Fiefdom
land owned by
The feudal Lord
Serfs
Were the peasants
work
In the Fiefdom
lived
In the Fiefdom
Power of the nobility
Increased
Denny military aid
Armies to extend their domains
Feudal wars
Insecurity
nobility build castles
Vassalage relationships
Person who voluntary
Promise his loyalty
To someone more powerfull
The vassal swore his loyalty
In an acting called
Commendation ceremony
In return to protecting
And pofiding for him
Feudal monarchy
Governed with the aid of
The court
Nobles who advised him
Royal officials
Served the monarch
Chancery
Writting the decisions
Taking by the monarch
Host
Army composed by
Monarch armies
Nobility armies
Characteristics of the Fiefdom
It consisted on
Castle
Situated up high or
Next to a river
Easier to defend
House of the lord and
His family
Vassals
Servants
Demesne
The Lord's land
Cultivated by his serfs
Forest also belonged
Village
Situated near the castle
Main building was
The church
Peasants lived with
The animals together
Places of comunal use
Like bridges or furnace
Economy and Society
Society
Nobility
Dominant group
Higher
Dukes
Marquisis
Counts
Lower
Knights
Clergy
In charge of praying
Upper
Bishops and Abbots
Lower
Priests and Monks
Peasants
Workers
Serfs
Attached to the fief
Free peasants
Economy
Agriculture
Cereal crops
Vegetales and pulses
Animal products
Milk
Eggs
Livestock
Meat rarely consumed
Wool and leather
Transport
Horses
Subsistence economy
Agriculture techniques
Three year crop
Rotation
Irrigation techniques
Animal excrement
As fertiliser
Population grew
The church
Organisation
Pope
leader of the Christians
In the west part
Cardinals decided his succesors
Secular clergy
Bishops and priests
Religious education
Regular clergy
Abbots, monks and nuns
Follow rules
Orders
Military
Religious
Political and economic power
Economic power
Monarch give lands
To the church
Peasants had to pay
tax 10%
Tithe
Political power
The monarch and the pope
Were closed
Monarch appointed Bishops
Pope could excomunicate
People
Even the Monarch
Culture
Responsible to
Spread culture
Responsible for
Education
Fear of
Hell
End of the world
Mediation of
Saints and the Virgin Mary
Romanesque
Characteristics
Rural
Promoted by
Nobility and church
Religious buildings
Cathedrals
Extended along
Pilgrimage routes
Looked like fortresses
They serve as refugies
Lack of windows
Architecture
Thick stone walls
Buttreeses
Collums and pillars
Features from romans
Semicircular arches
Floor plans
Latin cross
Façades
Contained portals
Decorated
Towers
Painting and sculpture
Decorative and educational
people could learn
about bible
Symbolic character of images
Schematic style
Sculpture
Stone
Painting
Walls or miniatures
