fuedalism

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In analyzing the reading, it appears the feudalism was a source of order in Europe. e society, political, military, social, and economic. Marxism’s main emphasis is that of the plight of the worker thus in his view of feudalism only the peasants contributed to society. Under the lords were their “bodyguards” or knights. This started the dependency of the lower class on the aristocratic lords. The direct influence of this way of life on the peasants was that they were protected by and indebted to the lords. He saw all of these issues centering around lordship. These vassals were not members of the nobility and thus could not rule. While peasants were, from a modern view, owned by the lords, in the sense that they were indebted to the lords, the peasants were willing to sacrifice complete freedom for the protection. Karl Marx also took this perspective with one major difference; he centered on peasants. In another major view, feudalism is largely a political term. Those that were trained in using the stirrup to spear his enemy became valuable to the lords, who made these men take oaths of allegiance to them. The ruling counts were below kings in early feudalism, however when the kings failed to protect, the counts stepped in and protected their people for a price, that of subservience. The lords became their rulers as opposed to the kings.

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Karl Marx, , Marc Bloch, view feudalism, retainers vassals, modern view, life peasants, indebted lords, lower class,

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