[Music] thank you [Music] medieval culture during the Middle Ages in Europe was based on two systems feudalism and minorialism both systems were dependent on land under the feudal system different groups of people had different amounts of power our status in society at the very top was the king or queen these Royals owned all the land but needed help controlling and protecting their Kingdom in exchange for military help they split up the land and gave it to different people the land they gave away was called a thief the person who got the land was called a vassal there were different levels of vassals at the top level there were Nobles Lords Barons and counts otherwise known as the aristocracy another type of vassal who fought for the Lords was a knight once a vassal got land he oversaw the people who worked on that land so the same person could be both a servant and a lord the lowest people in the feudal system were serfs and peasants some of them were farmers and others were Bakers and blacksmiths in a special ceremony called the feudal contract the vassal promised to be loyal to the Lord or person with more power in exchange the Lord promised to protect the people who lived on his land and keep them safe in medieval times a manner was illegally owned large parcel of land on an agricultural estate memorialism was both a political and economic system land ownership was granted by the king or Lord only the wealthy aristocracy could own a manner and that defined their political power within the kingdom the landowner was given a title of Lord of The Manor a noble title that allowed the landowner to attend the Royal Court of the king Nobles also had the right to collect taxes from The Peasants and serfs who worked the land the most common way for the workers to pay their taxes and debts were through their labor and trade of the food and products they produced some manners had plots of land specifically for peasants there were Villages where the workers and their families lived some manners granted monks and their religious order the right to build monasteries where they could write study and pray so what is the difference between feudalism and minorialism feudalism was a political and legal system that created an alliance between the Lord and his vassals the vassal was granted land in exchange for military service and loyalty memorialism was an agricultural system that created a farming economy in which peasants were granted land in exchange for their labor and the food and products they produced foreign