Feudalism And Feudal States From Europe After The Breakup...

Name: Jessica-Anne Knupp Date: 10/04/2014 Class: HS111 World CIV How did feudalism and feudal states come to be formed in Europe after the breakup of the Carolingian empire? Feudalism is the word used to describe a complex set of relationships which appeared following the reign of Charlemagne. I came to find that basically there isn’t a book to tell you exactly about feudalism, no rule book or handbook. Because of this feudalism is sometimes difficult to describe and just as difficult to understand, I had problems understanding the topic myself. I actually found myself having to think harder and require more resources spending multiple hours just researching on the matter just to understand the system as much as possible and its apparently nonexistent rules. On top of that, also attempting to learn how feudalism first started and why of its popularity for many years. As I continued to gather information, I noticed the difficulty of finding just how and where feudalism made its first appearance. It was rare I would find two credible sources with the same historical dating for feudalism. Feudalism was the term officially used by historians to describe the type of government institutions, as well as the general social and political relationships, that existed at that period among warrior-landholders in much of Europe, what we know today as the Middle Ages. Feudalism, a few years later after its birth, it began defined as a contract under which military service was given in