Cultivating a Collective Past

Feudalism means a type of government institutions that had been common during the period of warrior-landholders that resided in much of Middle Ages of Europe.  It came from northern France  during the tenth century after the Carolingian empire collapsed. it met the needs of people else where in Europe. Feudalism was not a clearcut system but it had two defining principles. These were warfare and land.

Feudalism gave its society a pecking order. Lessor landowners showed respect and paid homage with servitude in an army to large landowners, and the large landowners protected them and their interest in return.The landowners gave each other certain rights and interests over resources. Which in those days were land and peasants that worked that land.