MHI-01: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL SOCITIES
Course Code: MHI-01
Assignment Code: MHI-01/AST/TMA/2016-17
Total Marks: 100
7. Analyse the views of various scholars on feudalism in Europe.
The
term feudalism is recent, first
appearing in French in 1823, Italian in 1827, and English in 1839 and in German
in the second half of the nineteenth century. It derived from
"feodal" which was used in seventeenth-century French legal treatises
(1614) and translated into English legal treatises as "feodal
government". In the 18th century Adam Smith popularized the forms "feudal
government" and "feudal system" in his book Wealth
of Nations
(1776). In the 19th century the adjective "feudal" (i.e. "the
feudal government") evolved into a noun: feudalism.
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