feudalism

How To Use feudalism In A Sentence

• Out of the creation of villages and the granting of lands after military conquest came the institution of feudalism.
• In China, feudalism, as a social system, collapsed nearly a century ago when the country became a republic in 1911.
• Falstaff's discourse on honor in I Henry IV is a paradoxical redefinition of an aris - tocratic value long unquestioned but, after the decline of active feudalism, a topic for the anti-idealist para - doxists of the Renaissance. LITERARY PARADOX
• A case of too fast a transition from feudalism to modernity?
• In classical Marxist thought slavery is a mode of production that characterizes primitive communities, feudalism, and pre-industrial agrarian societies.
• Describing himself as one of the ‘new princes of corporate feudalism,’ the CEO is corrupt, predatory and greedy.
• This system, this economic side of feudalism, is what we know as the manorial system. The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)
• In Germany, despite the efforts of the Ottonian and Salian kings, feudalism began to take hold and frustrate efforts to create a German state. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• From feudalism a clan chief gained the concept of absolute ownership of land, and the system of succession by primogeniture.
• On the last occasion the king ennobled him, As prime minister he was most zealous in establishing the supremacy of the State over the Church, and in abolishing the privileges of the nobility together with feudalism, He restricted the jurisdiction of the bishops, impeded the last increment of the so-called mortmain, and reduced the taxes belonging to the chancery of the Roman Curia. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon