Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne  Operating System Concepts Lecture # 7 Feudalism & State Abul Kalam Azad Senior Lecturer in Sociology Centre for General Education (CGED) Northern University Bangladesh

Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne  Operating System Concepts Feudalism Feudalism in its earlier stages it seemed to have more of the personal clan than of the territorial state in its composition; But by the tenth and eleventh centuries the state idea was revived and by the close of the medieval period it was completely successful

Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne  Operating System Concepts Feudalism The clan and the church having failed in their efforts to retain political power. Feudalism was essentially personal, private and non-political. The power of the feudal loads was distinctly limited.

Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne  Operating System Concepts Feudalism It was a special relation between lord and vassal. Feudal territories were small and scattered, by its very nature, feudalism prevented the idea of an absolute authority ruling within definite area.

Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne  Operating System Concepts Feudalism Its theory required a succession of Lordships within lordships, no one having complete sovereignty. The modern conceptions of sovereignty and of law were entirely foreign to the middle ages.

Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne  Operating System Concepts Feudalism Law was primarily custom and existed as a part of local or national life. It was not a command of a lawmaker or will of a community.

Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne  Operating System Concepts The Feudal Nobility The emergence of the feudal system brought with it the crystallization of western Europe’s nobility as a distinct class. This class developed a life style filled with the usages of feudalism that made it a distinct, exclusive group.

Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne  Operating System Concepts The Feudal Nobility In the ninth and tenth centuries that way of life was rough and crude. Above all, he had prowess: his life entered in a career of fighting for his lord, his lands, his family, his serfs and his God.

Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne  Operating System Concepts The Feudal Nobility He had to sustain himself as a warrior, so that the management of his ancestral lands constituted a part of his education. His style of life in general crude and the feudal world was a man’s world.

Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne  Operating System Concepts The Feudal Nobility The women in this warrior world were accorded inferior standing legality. They could not be lords and vassals; their social status reflected that of their fathers and husbands.

Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne  Operating System Concepts The Feudal Nobility Women’s life were marked by subservience to husbands and devotion to the responsibilities of childbearing and management of the noble household.

Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne  Operating System Concepts Feudalism and the Church Feudalism had a drastic effect on another vital institution in western Society: Church The Church had enjoyed a tremendous upsurge in power and influence, owing top better organization, reform clergy and standardization of ritual and doctrine.

Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne  Operating System Concepts Feudalism and the Church The difficulties of the Church in Feudal society stemmed chiefly from its position as a great landholder. Much of its land had been acquired in the form of grants from kings and other powerful laymen, …

Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne  Operating System Concepts Feudalism and the Church who expected the bishops and abbots so favored to render services. Ruling Church officials became preoccupied with secular matters at the expense of their religious duties.

Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne  Operating System Concepts Feudalism and the Church The top level of the church organization thus came to be filled with good fighters and good administrators who had limited interest in religious problems. They neglected education, charity and moral conduct.

Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne  Operating System Concepts Feudalism and the Church The lower clergy sink with ignorance. Even Pope was responsible to feudalize the church. During the tenth century the papal office was filled with men chosen by powerful feudal lords in central Italy.

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