There is no great character with whom Feudalism is especially identified. It was an institution of the Middle Ages, which grew out of the miseries and robberies that succeeded the fall of the Roman Empire. With the collapse of the Carolingian Kingdom/Holy Roman Empire in the 9th century, Europeans entered what many consider the core period of the Medieval age - the Central Middle Ages. This age is also described as the "feudal" period in European history. Feudalism is a term we have used before. Feudalism means a situation where there is no dominant political power or effective central leadership. In other words, there is no state or empire. Local leaders control political decisions, command the military power, have the controlling economic power and even dominate in the cultural realm. In a feudal society, power is treated as private possession; there is no effective state.
In the feudal system, there is an absence of a strong central authority. There is diffusion of......
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