HIST-102 Lecture 3: Feudalism to the Modern State
29 Sep 2018
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Kings are closely tied with their own vassals instead of different vassals. Baronial/seigneurial courts: the goal of the vassal is to administer justice under the king"s name. There is no well worked justice system unlike the chinese. In judicial positions, the local nobility hold court and administer justice as they see fit: toward the end of the medieval period, the first royal courts of appeal then appear. Serf: peasant bound to his lord and the land. (e"s not a slave unlike the roman empire who had slave economies. A serf is not an object and he is a person, a good christian, but can"t leave the land or marry without the lord"s permission. Serfdom obligations: to work the lord"s fields. The serf works different strips of land everyday, and as harvest comes, the food will go to the lord to feed him and his servants and sell the rest.
