Fief

purposes during the Meiji Revolution proper. Aizawa concludes his section on the danger from the West by asking “what is the ‘basis’ of our nation?” (626); at this point, it is clear that, though Japan may have been fragmented into hundreds of separate fiefs, a clear sense of national unity was beginning to flourish, one searching for a solid political foundation upon which to build a modern nation state that could stand to compete with the…

to govern the methods of agriculture and the peasants who worked in the manor. The manor was a mostly self sufficient farming territory worked by villagers and overseen by the lord's appointed men as it was depended upon for the economic life of his fief. The managers of the manor came in a hierarchy, the steward being the highest ranking, then the baliff, and finally the reeve. The steward inspected the manor while the baliff oversaw the work of the peasants and the finances. The reeve acted as…

A fief is the central element of feudalism and “is a gift or grant the creates a kind of contractual relationship between the giver and receiver” (Cole & Symes 261). The gift could be land, revenues, or an annual sum of money. In return the recipient owed…

the top of the hierarchy, and the knight at the bottom whose fief was large enough for only one soldier. In this system, noblemen were given an area of land called a fief by the king to have and tend to for his lifetime. In return for the land, the nobles were bound to furnish soldiers and money to the king. With the land received, the noble would then vow to give protection to vassals who lived on his land. To live on the noble 's fief, vassals were required to offer military service of his own…

nobles built castles to serve as defenses and gave pieces of land called fiefs to knights as a form of payment for their services and protection, as the rich were in desperate need of warriors to defend them after a series of invasions left them unable to depend on their respective king’s army. Although the feudal system may have been effective, at times it could become excessively complex, as vassals, those who accepted fiefs from lords, could be in the service of multiple lords at once; not…

The ninth century can be characterized as an age of turbulence and chaos caused by the Viking invasions and atrocious leadership. Due to these things, the government felt the need for protection, and became accustomed to a feudal government. Feudalism is the political, military, and legal relationship between a lord and a vassal. In order for this system to work, fife was exchanged for loyalty, a ceremony was held for a vassal to pledge fealty to their royal, and the Truce of God was out into…

Christopher Columbus /Diego Columbus, Spanish Diego Colón was born 1479 in Porto Santo, Madeira Islands the oldest son of Christopher Columbus When his father managed the great voyage of discovery in 1492, Diego was made a page at the Spanish court. When his father’s died in 1506, he began a long struggle to regain his father’s former privileges in the Indies. Diego’s marriage to María Álvarez de Toledo, niece of the duque de Alba, the cousin of King Ferdinand, worked in his favour, and in 1508…

Manors, which are self-sufficient farming estates, were the primary centers for agricultural production. Many poor farmers and laborers without land to work on gave whatever land they had to large landowners in return for physical and political protection from the landowners. In doing so, and giving their freedom to the landowners as well, they became serfs and vassals. To ensure protection from these large landowners, also known as lords, these serfs and vassals had to give their services and…

Jarl Erik looked over his papers with an angry look. "Felix why are we losing money!" Erik yelled at his steward. "Sir the harvest wasn't good because of the raiders from the east valley, so we didn't have a good trade this year" Felix said in a quivering voice. Felix never liked it when his master got mad because it alway ended bad. "Well then it looks like we need more money so this month we will charge them a 1/4 more than usual" said Erik. "But sir the harvest means the people don't have…

It was a system based on feudal oaths and contracts between lords and vassals, in this case a knight, in which a vassal would pledge loyalty and service to the lord who, in exchange, gave the vassal a gift/fee (Biel 9). Vassals were normally given fiefs, in which by the year 1000 C.E. had become a patch of land, that they could hold as long as he lived and served his lord (Biel 9). They were also entitled to rule all people who lived off the land and could take whatever he deemed appropriate…