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Feudalism is defined as a Medieval European political, economic and social system from the 9th to 15th century.
There is no commonly accepted modern definition of feudalism, at least among scholars. The adjective feudal was coined in the 17th century, and the noun feudalism, often used in a political and propaganda context, was not coined until the 19th century, from the French fÃ©odalitÃ© (feudality), itself an 18th-century creation.