Definition of Feudalism

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Definition of Feudalism
	Feudalism The feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages. Related Definitions: An, And, By, Dependent, Feudal, Holding, In, Is, Kind, Land, Made, Military, Obligation, Of, Or, Render, Service, Superior, System, The, To, Upon, Which

Feudalism Quotations

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
Timothy Leary

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
John McCarthy

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
C. L. R. James

The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.
Lawrence Lessig

The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.
Emily Greene Balch

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
Barbara Amiel

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.
Alexander Haig

Feudalism Translations

feudalism in German is Feudalismus
feudalism in Spanish is feudalismo

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