... understand what Spencer meant is to understand the origins and development of European feudalism. The concept of feudalism has dominated much of the research and study of Europe during the Middle Ages. Feudalism was, without doubt, the framework for all political, economic, and social life during this period. And even still today, we can see the origins of feudalism throughout our system ... on behalf of their lord. Peasants worked the land. At the bottom of this hierarchical system were serfs-peasants who were bound to the land that they cultivated. By the High Middle Ages (about 1000 ...

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