The feudal system The feudal system helps us to understand how medieval society was organised. There was a big divide between wealthy nobles and peasants. The Domesday Book As King of England ...

Most people in medieval society lived in villages, there were few large towns. The majority of people were peasants, who worked on the land. There were a range of jobs and trades in towns and ...

This generational cycle further entrenches the power of the feudal elite, as entire families become dependent on their employer for survival, with little hope of breaking free from this inherited ...

The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression ...