Feudal Europe: land, loyalty, and local lordship

In medieval Europe, elite power was often organized through a system historians commonly call feudalism, in which kings granted land to nobles in exchange for military service, and nobles in turn granted land to knights on similar terms. A separate but related system, manorialism, organized the economic life of ordinary peasants, who worked a lord's land in exchange for protection and the right to farm some of it for themselves. Historians debate how uniform either system really was across different times and places.

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