Feudalism and ManorialismFeudalism: When the empire fell there were no laws protecting them, so they turned to lords to keep peace and act on their behalf. The willingness to be ruled by lords led to the beginnings of feudalism some peasants were free but most were serfs to the lord. Feudalism included a designated social,economic, and political conditions in western Europe during the middle ages.
Manorialism: The basic unit was the manor, a self sufficient landed estate, or fief, that was under the control of a lord who enjoyed a variety of nights over it and the peasants attached to it by means of seldom. Landholding nobles were a military elite whose ability to be warriors depended on the leisure time to pursue the arts of war. Landed estates , located on the fiefs given to a vassal by his lord and worked by by peasants, gave the economic support that made the economic system of manorialism possible.The manorial system was the most convenient device for organizing the estates of the aristocracy in the middle ages in Europe, and it made feudalism possible.
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