Feudalism helped the moarchy more than hurt it, however, the lords/nobles gained the majority of the power. In feudalist societies the government was run more like an oligarchy. Western Europe is the...
The manor system rested on a set of rights and obligations between a lord and his serfs. The lord provided his serfs with farmland, protection from bandits, and housing. In return serfs tended the...
Manorial (sometimes seigneurial or in Marxist parlance, feudal) economy arose from the low level of money, trade and urbanisation in western Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire. With...