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Chapter 13 Section 2
Feudalism & the Manorial System
Vikings
l  Feared
invaders from the North
800-900 s
l  Norsemen, Scandanavian (Norway,
Sweden, Denmark)
l  Viking funeral
l  Democratic, raid,loot slaves. Siege
l  Normandy = Northmen (area settled by
Vikings)
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Magyars and Muslim
l  Magyars
and Muslims attack
l  Magyars from the East
n  Did
not settle conquered land
l  Muslims
n  Come
struck from the south
from North Africa invade Italy and Spain.
l  Conquer
Europe, eventually just plunder it.
l  ALL
THESE INVADERS CREATE
WIDESPREAD DISORDER = FEUDALISM
Feudalism
Feudalism = Political Organization
§ 900
s everything is disintegrating
§ Governed by small independent lords
§ * Lords and Nobles are pretty much the
same thing, Both powerful land owners..
§ Lord/church/noble,
owns a fief (land mass)
§ Let Vassal work the land
§ Vassal
can separate it and give it to others to
work (now he s a lord)
§ Vassals
has to promise loyalty, military
assistance, and other services.
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Feudalism
§ Vassals
has to promise loyalty, military
assistance, and other services.
§ In
theory every landholder was a vassal
to the King, but…. Only those who lived
on his land really were.
§ Church
has large amounts of land =
fiefs= vassals = military protection
Feudalism & the Manorial
System
• By
1100 s vassal gives land to his eldest
son=Primogeniture.
§ Other
son is in military or church (very
powerful)
§ This only occurred in nobility, not peasants
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Feudalism & the Manorial
System
• WARFARE
• More
local, small scale fights between lords
or vassals.
• Armor - extremely heavy, chains (flexible),
war horses (huge with armor)
• Church and War
• Makes rules like
• No fighting in or near churches
• Leave women and clergy alone
• No fighting on Sabbath Days
• Limit violence against agricultural land, equipment &
animals
Feudalism
• WARFARE
• Church
and War
• Makes rules like
• No fighting in or near churches
• Leave women and clergy alone
• No fighting on Sabbath Days
• Limit violence against agricultural land, equipment &
animals
§ War
was an opportunity for glory and wealth
§ War for most was suffering & hardships
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Feudalism & the Manorial
System
• Feudal
Trial (Justice)
• BATTLE
(duels) whoever wins has right and
gets what they wanted
• COMPUGATION- (oath taking) supported by
people who swore that the person
represented was telling the truth
• Most
like our system today. witness
• TRIAL
BY ORDEALS -determined by how
accused survived a particular violent ordeal
• If
your wound healed quickly without infection,
then you were innocent (hot iron, boiling water,
dunked into cold water.)
Feudalism
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Manor System
s  Dark Ages
s  Manor system shapes Economy
s  Manor = large farming estate & village
s  No Central authority or organized trade
s  Manors are self sufficient
Manor System
s  Dark Ages
s  Manor system shapes Economy
s  Manor = large farming estate & village
s  No Central authority or organized trade
s  Manors are self sufficient
s  A Lord and Peasant families shared the land
of the manor
s  Lord 1/3 of land = domain
s  Remaining 2/3rds = Peasants
s  Lord gets some of Peasants crop & most farm his land
s  Pay taxes and services (military)
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Manor System
s  A Lord and Peasant families shared the land
of the manor
s  Lord 1/3 of land = domain
s  Remaining 2/3rds = Peasants
s  Lord gets some of Peasants crop & most farm his land
s  Pay taxes and services (military)
s  Manor Village is by a stream = mill
s  3 fields - 2 planted, one regains fertility
(rotate)
s  Fields are divided into strips to assure Lords land
is worked equally & fairly.
Manor System
s  Peasant Life
s  Difficult life - hours in fields
s  Peasants = serf= can not leave land
s  Forbidden to hunt land without permission
s  Rarely eats meat (needs lords permission)
s  Short life expectancy
s  Disease, starvation, War
s  Live work & die on land you are born on.
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Manor System
s  Nobles life
s  Generally did not live in luxury
s  Castle = fortified base
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Simple structure - earth & wood, later stone
Built on hills - harder to attack
Ditch around moat, = water
Draw bridges allow movement in & out
Keep= building with tower, storerooms, workshop, &
barracks along with Lords living quarters.
s  Lords spends day looking after land and
dispencing justice on vassals and serfs
s  Marriage advances one s fortune
s  Land, children (labors) doweries
Medieval Europe
s  video
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Manor System
s  Chivalry
Manor System
s  Chivalry
s  Code of conduct
s  Dictates knights behavior
s  Cheval = horse= knight mounted soldiers
s  Knight belonged to noble class
s  Pass through 2 stages
1.  Age 7 serve as Knight page
a)  Learn knightly behavior (manners)
b)  Use & care of weapons
2.  Teenager = knights assistant = Squire
a)  Takes care of horses, armor, weapons
b)  When ready, goes to battle with knight
§  If squire proves himself skilled and courages
fighter, he would be knighted.
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Manor System
s 
Chivalry
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Knight in full armor could only be distinguished
from other Knight by Coat of Arms
Pg 299 Graphic symbol of family
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Passed from generation to generation
Manor System
s 
Chivalry
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Code of Chivalry
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Tricks = coward
Loyal to friends and keep word
Treat foes he conquers gallantly
Courteous to women
s 
Improves rough, crude manners of early lords
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ONLY COURTESY TO PEOPLE OF OWN CLASS
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