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> By simple analogy, which self-imposed costs were paid by feudal lords? Mantaining lords and knights, letting go of a parcel of their land so that they could
by tmcb 2y ago
> By simple analogy, which self-imposed costs were paid by feudal lords?
Mantaining lords and knights, letting go of a parcel of their land so that they could accommodate enough serfs and their families (as in comparison to, say, slave quarters used in the Americas).
- red-iron-pine 2y agoand running their manor, in a day to day sense in many cases. the point was to maintain a military and agricultural base, and they had sizable obligations to their bosses, up to and including dying in battle.