POLI 359 Lecture Notes - Bullionism, Protectionism, Autarky
10 Sep 2013
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History origins of democratic state in europe. Based on an agrarian mode of production. Suggesting that ones access to political power is based on their relationship to land and agricultural production. Direct link from social status to land and agriculture. Basically a political economy of land holding. Based on what is known as vassalage: 1. Vassalage is hierarchical superordinate (superior) and a group that is subordinate. (vassal: 2. Based on process of enfeoffment (the deed by which a person was given land in exchange for a pledge of service ) 2 sides political economic (emperor, nobility, serfs/peasanty) and ecclesiastical (religious): the political-economic structure gives political and economic support to the ecclesiastical structure, in exchange for religious/ideological legitimacy from the ecclesiastical to the political-economic. Manor is center of economic and political authority within the fief. In exchange for oath of loyalty, they get a tract of land.
