HIST 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Nazi Salute, Holy Lance, Manorialism
Document Summary
Civil wars and viking invasions reduced the ability of the empire to coordinate defense. Feudalism: legal military customs in medieval europe between the 9th and. Local lords and their vassals replaces imperial authorities and develop castles and burgs which can provide protection from marauding vikings, The exchange of land for military services key component of feudalism. (charles martel and his knights, he gave land and feifs. Men of the nobility, involves land and military services for the land. 3 orders of medieval society: clergy: bishops, pope, monks, nuns prayer and spiritual services. Closest to god: the nobility: knights, soldiers - military services. (land in exchange for military services) (feudal institutions), the commons: peasants, majority of the populations. Not well paid - agricultural and labour services. End of carolingian of eat francia with the death of louis the child in 911. German tribal leaders were now tribal dukes of saxony, franconia, swabia, German lands are being invaded from the east !
