England and France start there on again, off again fighting that will define them until the middle of the 19th century.
Feudalism is at its height, University Towns rise up, as do Gothic Cathedrals. These nobles and lords would in turn have vassals (servants) work the land in exchange for a place to live. This is what most people seem to imagine the entirety of the Middle Ages was like. The king owned all the land and would distribute lots of land to nobles and lords in exchange of military protection. Despite feudalistic societies occurring in other parts of the world, European feudalism of the Medieval Ages remain the common model of the feudal society.īasically, Feudalism was the system of land and obligation("Manorialism"). The system of the feudalism of Europe in the Middle Ages spread to all parts of Europe until the 14th century ("Feudalism"). The word feudalism comes from the Latin word feodum, for "fief," and a German word meaning "cow,"generalized to indicate valuable and movable property and land ("Feudalism"). This hierarchy was crucial to the systems of feudalism and manorialism.įeudalism controlled the political, economic and military system of the middle ages. There was a hierarchy of power in society, with the King at the highest levels. Denmark’s society ran on two systems during the high middle ages: the system of feudalism and manorialism("Feudalism").Īs mentioned on the previous page, Denmark used to be a Monarchy.