The Impact of Fuedalism

There are many different views on how feudalism affected the “Middle Ages”. Some people believe it was genius while others think it was a disaster. There is only one thing that is truly certain about feudalism and that is that it had political, social and economic impacts. Feudalism was developed to secure the alliance between a feudal lord and an ordinary peasant. The feudal lord would give a section of land to a “fief” and …

…become serfs” (Doc. 44) Economically feudalism weakened the central government and left the land open and more prone to attack. Document 44 supports this. “…the state, being incapable of maintaining its administration, allowed itself to be absorbed by feudality, the inevitable sequel of the economic regression”. As you can see feudalism had many impacts on society. Some were good and others were bad but all of them influenced the way thing would be run in the future.