A view from the future and the medieval ages
The great publicist of the enlightenment, Voltaire, even while he advocated the widening of historical inquiry to embrace social and economic activities and their effect, strongly believed that any ob...
The economic portion of feudalism was centered on the lord's estates or manor, and is called manorial. A lord's manor would include peasant villages, a church, farm land, a mill, and the lord's castle...
The greater part of medieval civilization was a time of simplicity and little cultural development. Feudalism was the structure that governed medieval society and came to represent this time period. T...