• pedz@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    4 months ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism

    Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.

    I’m a middle age Québécois and we learn about that system in secondary school when we talk about the early ages of New France. AFAIK it was however a bit different from empire to empire. In New France there were seigneurs (lords) holding vast pieces of land for the crown, called a seigneurie (lordship). Within that there were censitaires (serfs) that had to make use of the land and pay taxes.