Feudal Institutions

What Is It?

• Feudalism is the term applied to relationships between members of aristocracy
• Trading and passing down of land between nobles and aristocrats
• The basic unit of trading was a fief

ORIGINS

• Appeared on Frankish land first
• legal and military customs

SOCIAL STRUCTURE

HOW WERE SLAVES AFFECTED

• Serfs worked the lands
• When owned they faced shortages of slave labor
• Slaves were granted hides in exchange for tithes and other types of taxes
• Lords protect their slaves
• manumission