The feudal system that dominated medieval
Position 1: This interlocking network of duties and dependencies gave medieval society its characteristic rigidity, making large-scale social mobility extremely rare.
Position 2: At its apex stood the monarch, who granted parcels of land known as fiefs to nobles in exchange for pledges of loyalty and armed service.
Position 3: At the base of this pyramid, serfs worked the land and provided agricultural labour in return for the protection of their lord's castle.
Position 4: The feudal system that dominated medieval Europe was fundamentally a hierarchical arrangement of land tenure and military obligation.
Position 5: Those nobles, in turn, subdivided their holdings and extracted similar pledges from knights and lesser lords beneath them.
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