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Feudalism is defined as a Medieval European political, economic and social system from the 9th to 15th century.
Feudalism in England. Feudalism as practiced in the Kingdom of England was a state of human society which was formally structured and stratified on the basis of land tenure and the varieties thereof. Society was thus ordered around relationships derived from the holding of land, which landholdings are termed fiefdoms, fiefs, or fees. These political and military customs existed in medieval Europe, having developed around 700 A.D., flourished up to about the first quarter of the 14th century and declined until their