Meaning Of Feudalism

Feudalism comes from the Latin is "beneficum" is changed to "feudum" which means the loan. Loans here interpreted as a loan from the master plot of land to people who want to borrow the land is often called vazalnya. In the development of existing, not just land lent but the position can also be lent along with the times.  The term comes from Frankists foedalisme (Old French) pitched defined feod loans, especially land lent. The opposite is the all-od or own property in terms of customary law is said to resemble feodum yasan ground.

Feudalism is characteristic of medieval violent, abhorrent, and impartiality to the superintendent or landlord. People living on the land are considered by the landlord as well as the owner of the house, land, and crops. Surrounding the house there is an area of ​​land measuring 1 and ½ half the land be divided to become homeowners around the house. The land is then entrusted to farmers to work and produce agricultural products. The vazal is then obliged to pay a tax to the ruler or the ruling over him. This understanding emphasizes the agricultural community that produces crops of agricultural objects that they do. The emerging social strata to understand the cause of social inequality clearly where the nobility and the peasantry on the upper section of the lower social strata. Meanwhile, the merchants were at the middle social layer so that the land is tilled or occupied for farming as a source of power for the system of government imposed by Feudalism understand.

Foedalisme can be regarded as a system of government that took place held by the majority of the leaders and the nobility or ruling elites on the bottom of the  with the thought that it is a slave or vazzal in Old French language. Understand the impact of the ruler or the landowner where they are dependent on the lower class or farmers where they can not run the system when the farmer does not want to follow this system.

 

Separately, there are two important things that affect the appearance of foedal system in Europe are: 

1. Dark Ages experienced across Europe

       Medieval into the dark ages to the Roman nation that ruled Europe at that time. Where the era of Renaissance of the 14th century was the beginning of the Roman destruction of the Roman Eastern and Western parts, causing the appearance of Europe and almost the entire European region into an agrarian society with rural households that have closed. The traffic is not visible and no money at the time. Landowner who then ruled by the ability of state administration and military systems that allow them to continue to preserve its power over land and the need for extensive land become a necessity.
 

2.  Elements of Culture

        Culture German tribes with its military and tribal culture roman with ownership of the land into elements that influence the understanding foedalisme that time. Land owners who do not have the financial ability or weak public roman tribe can not afford to pay the land tax so high that they sell it to the tribe or nation is regarded as the German capital owners of that time. This leads to mixing which can not be separated between roman nation with the nation of Germany. Of mixing that occurs to make large capital owners thought to form a useful military force to protect it from other capital owners.