8/3/2023 0 Comments Feudalism chart unlabeledMost Europeans were peasant farmers working on the land of a Feudal nobleman-the lor of the manner. This system ws based on the laborof the lowest rung of the social order. The great nobels in turn divied their fiefdom among lesser lords or knights who became his vassals. These nobels in exchange pledged loyally to the king and to provide soldiers and supplies in time of war. The king also granted land to the Church. The system was based on the king granting land to his important noblemen who became barons. The Feudalism was an economic, social, and economic system based apportionment of land in exchange for the provision of fealty and service. And unlike the impression of a few serfs, the peasantry was the vast proportion of the population.Īfter the fall of Rome, the Feudal system developed in Europe. In reality society was based on the peasantry whose labor oproduced the agricultural bounty of medieval France. Notice how the imagery was dominated by a magnificent castle. As might be expected, it is an aristocratic view. These and the other pages provide a view of feudal France just as the country was emrginging into the modern age. This page of the calendar page for September showing the Château de Saumur in the background, and peasants harvesting grapes in the foreground, the typical labor of the month in France. It was the work of the Limbourg brothers (Pol and Hermann) probably with some assistance. It took almost a hundred years for the book to be completed. (The Duke’s brothers were King Charles V, the Duc d’Anjou and the Duc de Bourgogne, and his nephews were King Charles VI and the Duc d’Orleans.) The book was cimmissioned about 1410. It was commissioned by John Duke of Berry, the third son of King John II of France, thus a French nobel at the peak of the fedual system. Chronology of medieval boys' clothing - feudal systemįigure 1.-The 'Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry' is an illustrated manucriopt/book of hours, meaning a calendar.
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