Noun
fief (feef), n.- An estate held of a superior on condition of military service.
- something over which one has rights or exercises control
Metaphorically, the term refers to an area of dominion, esp. in a corporate or governmental bureaucracy.
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...Under the system of medieval European feudalism, a fiefdom, fief, feud, feoff, or fee, often consisted of inheritable lands or revenue-producing property granted by a liege lord, generally to a vassal, in return for a form of allegiance, originally to give him the means to fulfill his military duties when called upon. However, anything of value could be held in fief, such as an office, a right of exploitation (e.g., hunting, fishing) or any other type of revenue, rather than the land it comes from. Read full entry
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- 1.Fiefdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Fief depiction in book of hours: June, in Brevarium Grimani, fol. 7v (Flemish), ca. ... has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Fief. Nobility ...
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F
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- 2.Fief Definition | Definition of Fief at Dictionary.com
- Fief - Definition of Fief at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with ... The vassal could use the fief as long as he remained loyal to the lord. ...
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Can someone help me make a map Its a world history project...
Cartographer- Draw a map of
your proposed fief and explain
how your family will rule its
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what is a formal ceremony at help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! by
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Investiture.............. Canonical Investiture is the act by which a suzerain granted a fief to his vassal, and the ceremonies which accompanied that grant. From the middle of the eleventh century, and perhaps during the first half of that century, the term was used to designate the act and the ceremonies by which princes granted to bishops and abbots, besides their titles, the possessions which constituted their benefices, and the political rights which they were to exercise (see INVESTITURES, CONFLICT OF). The putting in possession was done after the investiture by enthronization (q. v.). The decretals use the word investitura to signify the concession of an ecclesiastical benefice; only since the thirteenth century has it signified the act of putting one in possession of such a benefice. This is the sense in which it is now used; it is synonymous with Institutio corporalis. (See INSTITUTION, CANONICAL; INSTALLATION.) |
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What was a fief? a manor? a What was a fief? a manor? a
vassal? a guild? the Black
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A fief was the land granted by the feudal lord, a manor was a self sufficient unit, a vassal was the person directly under the lord of the manor, they take care of the fief. a guild was a group of people that come together to cooperate to protect shared economic interests. The Black death was the plague, and it caused a large increase in wages and prices throughout Europe. after killing about a third of people... |
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