Depending on where you were in the structuralist hierarchy, the experience would be different.
For the most part, everything appears unpleasant from a Western perspective of the twenty-first century.
Fortunately, by the end of the High Middle Ages, Free Market Trade and the shift away from an agrarian economy would help to diminish the hold of feudalism in the West.
Between the ninth and fifteenth centuries, the political and social concept that dominated Western Europe was feudalism (the name originates from the Latin feudum or fief). Labor and land were two important considerations.
There is little question that Medieval civilizations evolved inside a framework that was fundamentally feudalistic and hierarchical, notwithstanding some historians' disagreements over whether it is a helpful paradigm to describe the Middle Ages.
After Charlemagne's enormous Carolingian Empire was decentralized, feudal societies began to develop throughout Western Europe. Lords, vassals, and fiefs were the three main components of traditional feudalistic society.
Land was possessed by a lord or noble, a vassal received land on behalf of the lord in exchange for services rendered to the lord, and the subject land was the fief. The lords may utilize vassals for both military and non-military work after they took an oath of loyalty and homage to them (largely involving agricultural labour and produce). The lord agreed to defend the vassal in return. Manorialism is a common word for the economic system (after the manor – the home of the lord).
Almost all feudal systems provided the lord great power over criminal sentencing, the start of the death penalty, and strict control over agricultural policy, albeit there was no one specific style of feudalism that served as the model for European civilization.
By the year 1500, feudalism had all but vanished from much of Western Europe, but it still retained a firm hold on Russia and Eastern Europe. Serfdom, or the bonding of a peasant to the lord's land, was only abolished by the latter in the 1850s.
Thank you,
Eddie
