10 sentences with 'feudal'
Example sentences and phrases with the word feudal and other words derived from it.
• « The Celts were a warrior society that seems to have practised a variant of what would later become known as feudal law, in which every crime demanded retribution in the first of them, either violence or 'golden man' - the payment necessary to atone for a crime and thus prevent the escalation of violence. »
• « The 'Germans' were a very diverse group of tribes who practised feudal law, the system of law in which offences were met with violent clan-based retribution or blood payments. »
• « Likewise, Roman law faded away to be replaced by feudal law traditions and a very complex web of rights and privileges that rulers granted to groups in society (to help ensure the loyalty of their subjects). »
• « Over time, the relationship between feudal lords and kings was formalised into a system of mutual protection (or even a protection racket). »
• « In general, vassals did not have to pay taxes to their feudal lords (all tax revenue came from the peasants). »
• « Economies were almost entirely local; feudal lords and local kings extracted wealth from peasants, but since there was nowhere to sell surplus food, peasants tended to grow only what they needed to survive, using methods that did not change for centuries. »
• « In turn, the existence of a surplus encouraged feudal lords to convert payment in kind (i.e. taxes and rents paid in real food and livestock) into cash rent. »
• « The feudal system flourished in the early Middle Ages. Although it had its origins in the centuries after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, the formal system of vassals receiving land grants by promising military service to kings (or, increasingly, in exchange for cash payments in lieu of military service) really came of age in the 11th and 12th centuries. »
• « Similarly, the feudal system had never been so entrenched in Italy: there were lords and vassals, but especially in the cities there was a large and strong independent class of artisans and merchants who resisted submission to the lords, especially those who did not live in the cities. »
• « Under the viceroys were wealthy nobles (often originally successful conquistadors) who ran encomiendas, feudal estates with the legal right to exploit native labour. These often grew into even larger haciendas, the size of entire states in Europe. »