0:00 The Feudal System 0:12 Developed in Medieval Europe and Medieval Japan 0:48 Europe vacated the cities and ran to ----> Rural Society Roman Roads were breaking down, Trade was breaking down 1:17 They lived on Medieval *Manor Houses* People of The Manor 2:29 It's a little like Chess - The Lord: Keeper of The Manor - Knights: Protectors of The Manor - Bishops: The Church Support of The Manor - Serfs: Workers of The Manor, 2:50 Feudalism was a sort of Patchwork, like a quilt. Many Lords swore an oath to a King, but most Lords had autonomy over their lands 3:34 Fiefs= Feudal Land Contracts Lord Land Loyalty 4:26 The Feudal Hierarchy - Land and Legal Privileges in exchange for - Loyalty *The Decline of Feudalism* 5:42 Medieval Towns Growth of Royal Power Centralized Tax Collection 6:35 *The Black Death*
A concise, well-informed lecture, yet just the right amount of humor and warmth which connects very well. Excellent balance of overall concept, and detail - brilliant! I am a fan.
Thanks man, that was a good effective summary of feudalism which really helped me with my A-level a couple years back, I was just really struggling to get my head round the concept lol.
English Kings were French nobles (Normans, Angevins), that's why they had to pay hommage and loyalty to the King of France for their lands in France. They were vassals in France and equals to the French Kings as Kings of England This complicated situation and brought wars between France and England And in France, feodalism was less strong in times of strong centralisation, like in the 13th and beginning of 14th centuries and at the end of 100 Years war, the French Kingdom began a definitive centralisation of the country, still very visible today (Paris decides, regions apply)
"Inability of nobility resulting in peasant revolts" - this is exactly the Lenin's definition of a revolution situation: it is when "the lower classes no longer want, and the upper classes are no longer able to live the old ways".
Well done. My dad saw semi feudalism in Poland toward the end of the second world war. The peasants were actually bowing down to the clergy as they walked through the estates.
One nobleman in Russia came to tell the serfs they were free, and they would have to pay rent. They declined, saying the land had always been theirs, so they'd rather remain as serfs. The nobleman was furious. The Serfs were smart, when you consider how bad it got in Ireland when it worked off rents form greedy merchants, instead of knights who are meant to protect and grow the community... many people lost their lands, and starved as beggars. Farmers tend to love their land, and will fight for it, or even work themselves to death to keep it, as happened many times in England's industrial revolution (the street urchins were the lucky ones, as the farmers couldn't eat their own fruit or drink their own milk, selling it to pay for taxes).
The fact that he does take a sip of a drink when he says " hahaha ha I should take a quick sip of that one". Unless there's no drink in the cup and drinking air then that takes the mick lol ( 6:50 )
Thanks for elucidating FEUDALISM. I appreciate your English diction and pronunciation. I understood them well. Best concise video ever. I'm an Asian and I was upset by the British accents from other videos.
Another exception to the rule that kings offer vassalage to no one else, and unlike the symmetrical "vassalage" of the English Kings to the French Kings, the Holy Roman Empire contained a rank above the few vassal-kings: the Emperor, to whom the kings owed vassalage in the same way dukes offered theirs to their king. Notwithstanding the Eastern Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Emperor was meant to be the *only* emperor in (Western) Christendom, at least to begin with.
Wrong ! The holy Roman empire had no kings, only electors. The highest rank they had was Duke or arshibishop. But they were called sometimes princes electors but had no kingdom.
00:38 This is actually why humans never learn from history. We are too busy classifying and categorizing everything by simply creating "new" academic labels and terms that we never get to the "understanding" part in any meaningful way per Capita wise. In other words it's very important to understand, not just hear the words, that they had no idea they partook in a feudal system back then. In that very real way it was not a system per se. Humans however want a system and to homogenize, categorize, organize and make efficient everything. It's an ideal that meets with it's opposite in outcome
Absolutely not ! he did and amazing explanation of the feudal society ! Its easy to understand and haters like you will not see the gold cause u only do is hate
Are there any videos that explain where titles came from? I've watched a lot of documentaries and played games based in the middle ages, and titles are often brought up, but I wonder where they came from, or where the concept started / originated?
Thanks for this. With the word 'feudalism" being thrown around all the time these days,(politically), I went looking for a good overview, and here it is.
Hi Tom. Thanks for your videos. I love them and use them often in my class. I teach 10th and 11th grade History here in Indonesia. Thanks again and keep up the great videos. Ish
Technically, one of them is what used to be a bottle of Slovakian mead. But it’s there as a sentimental item - not intended in any way to promote alcohol consumption. The other is just decorative glass.
Cities were not ""outside the feudal hierarchy". They were a part of the system and acted as collective feudal lords. E.g. Venice called herself "Most Serene" which is a ducal title and elected a ruler called a doge to substitute a duke, or Novgorod had the full title "Great Master Novgorod" and invited a prince/duke-ranked nobleman to serve as a nominal head of the city.
great content here. I would encourage viewers who are students to embrace this knowledge as a critical critique of the world that needs many solutions rather than merely a way to pass a test and gain a career... knowledge and wisdom are of far greater significance than one's own practical purposes...too...we should be inspired to challenge and change the paradigm.
Cheer~~~the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.😊
France in 1477 is the worst example possible. Louis XI king of France put a sudden end to feudalism. Burgundy returned to the king after the defeat of the Duke and Brittany became part f France with the wedding of Louis XI son with the young duchess. You should have chosen the XI th century when France was a chaos of feudal States where the vassals always switched sides when they had more to gain.
So it was essentially like the United States but with the States having more power being more independent but still technically part of the same nation? Makes sense
Good vid richey, i like the way you turn from ancient era to early medieval. in short romans are over in the west, they aint maintaining their roads, kingdoms start coming up left right and center.
So, basically a bunch of poor people owed a bunch of rich people, who owed a smaller bunch of richer people, who owed an even smaller bunch of even richer people, who ultimately owed to one ultra-rich dude who technically ruled all of them...why does this sound familiar?
This wasn't debt as we understand it and comparing modern systems of credit and debt to feudalism is wholly dishonest and disrespectful to the peoples who lived under these systems.
There very little that the Middle Ages ever happened. If it did why aren’t there more records? Why aren’t there more places outside of Europe concerning this time? Why did they use a different calandra than everybody else?
Are you related to Theo Von? You all should look up his videos where you’ll hear a Louisiana accent on a very funny comedian and I swear they grew up in the same town, just probably on different sides lol
0:00 The Feudal System
0:12 Developed in Medieval Europe and Medieval Japan
0:48 Europe vacated the cities and ran to ----> Rural Society
Roman Roads were breaking down, Trade was breaking down
1:17 They lived on Medieval *Manor Houses*
People of The Manor
2:29 It's a little like Chess
- The Lord: Keeper of The Manor
- Knights: Protectors of The Manor
- Bishops: The Church Support of The Manor
- Serfs: Workers of The Manor,
2:50 Feudalism was a sort of Patchwork, like a quilt.
Many Lords swore an oath to a King, but most Lords had autonomy over their lands
3:34 Fiefs= Feudal Land Contracts
Lord Land Loyalty
4:26 The Feudal Hierarchy
- Land and Legal Privileges
in exchange for
- Loyalty
*The Decline of Feudalism*
5:42 Medieval Towns
Growth of Royal Power
Centralized Tax Collection
6:35 *The Black Death*
Timbrado
@@elpoleas5739 Wouldn't the decline of feudalism be when the peasants were so oppressed that just breathing air was a gift from the "lords"?
5:15
This really hepls! Thanks :)
Thank you! I needed to find what time the Black Death was being talked about :)
As King of England, I approve of this video (love your country accent btw 😁)
Who else is on this for school
Me
No
Me
I'm always late but me 🥲
college ☺️
sir your lectures are quite helpful literally! I've been preparing from your lectures for quite a long time . stay blessed. you are helping us alot
"Ha ha ha ha ha. I should take a quick sip to that one."
@King Saeed\ ملك سعيد stop being rude 😡
A concise, well-informed lecture, yet just the right amount of humor and warmth which connects very well. Excellent balance of overall concept, and detail - brilliant! I am a fan.
Thank you, I am way past my school years but suddenly learning history has become important to me to better understand my own indentity.
Thanks for the video! I'm homeschooling my first grader and we're learning lots about the middle ages this year.
So glad I can help homeschooling mothers!
@@tomrichey Hey, I am a homeschooler too!
Thanks a lot.
FIRST GRADE???
why is a first grader learning the same material as juniors in high school 😳
bruh i'm learning this as a freshman
thanks from Canada. Very solid explanation compared to most YT feudalism explanations.
...
(they don't know i'm watching this for D&D worldbuilding, not for history class)
Lol it’s amazing how much history can help towards creative endeavors.
Same
Same but not for d&d, just world building.
Thanks man, that was a good effective summary of feudalism which really helped me with my A-level a couple years back, I was just really struggling to get my head round the concept lol.
This helped me explain to my landlord that feudalism is over, so he can’t make me grow crops and give him half of what I grow.
Thanks a lot!!! I'm watching this from Spain in 2022 for history class, it helped me, thank you again!!!
English Kings were French nobles (Normans, Angevins), that's why they had to pay hommage and loyalty to the King of France for their lands in France.
They were vassals in France and equals to the French Kings as Kings of England
This complicated situation and brought wars between France and England
And in France, feodalism was less strong in times of strong centralisation, like in the 13th and beginning of 14th centuries and at the end of 100 Years war, the French Kingdom began a definitive centralisation of the country, still very visible today (Paris decides, regions apply)
The angevins and normans were Just during the the 12th century after that not really, nobody COnsider them french nobles
It's been 30 years since I've been in high school, but I still enjoyed your video. Good stuff!
"Inability of nobility resulting in peasant revolts" - this is exactly the Lenin's definition of a revolution situation: it is when "the lower classes no longer want, and the upper classes are no longer able to live the old ways".
Well done. My dad saw semi feudalism in Poland toward the end of the second world war. The peasants were actually bowing down to the clergy as they walked through the estates.
It was very interesting
Gotta love that outro!
Yeah, what's the music?
Hi from England! using loads of your vids for history gcses in a week.😅 there so helpful thank you! :)
Amazing video!
With the exception of southern Italy, where feudalism continued to exist for centuries on end.
One nobleman in Russia came to tell the serfs they were free, and they would have to pay rent. They declined, saying the land had always been theirs, so they'd rather remain as serfs. The nobleman was furious.
The Serfs were smart, when you consider how bad it got in Ireland when it worked off rents form greedy merchants, instead of knights who are meant to protect and grow the community... many people lost their lands, and starved as beggars. Farmers tend to love their land, and will fight for it, or even work themselves to death to keep it, as happened many times in England's industrial revolution (the street urchins were the lucky ones, as the farmers couldn't eat their own fruit or drink their own milk, selling it to pay for taxes).
The fact that he does take a sip of a drink when he says " hahaha ha I should take a quick sip of that one". Unless there's no drink in the cup and drinking air then that takes the mick lol ( 6:50 )
Thanks for elucidating FEUDALISM. I appreciate your English diction and pronunciation. I understood them well. Best concise video ever. I'm an Asian and I was upset by the British accents from other videos.
Another exception to the rule that kings offer vassalage to no one else, and unlike the symmetrical "vassalage" of the English Kings to the French Kings, the Holy Roman Empire contained a rank above the few vassal-kings: the Emperor, to whom the kings owed vassalage in the same way dukes offered theirs to their king.
Notwithstanding the Eastern Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Emperor was meant to be the *only* emperor in (Western) Christendom, at least to begin with.
Wrong ! The holy Roman empire had no kings, only electors. The highest rank they had was Duke or arshibishop. But they were called sometimes princes electors but had no kingdom.
@@antoinemozart243 wrong lol
That was really interesting.
Great video, thanks for the information!
I would have loved to have him as a teacher but now that I think of it all of my history teachers were also pretty cool 😎
00:38 This is actually why humans never learn from history. We are too busy classifying and categorizing everything by simply creating "new" academic labels and terms that we never get to the "understanding" part in any meaningful way per Capita wise.
In other words it's very important to understand, not just hear the words, that they had no idea they partook in a feudal system back then. In that very real way it was not a system per se. Humans however want a system and to homogenize, categorize, organize and make efficient everything. It's an ideal that meets with it's opposite in outcome
Well done. Thank you from a fellow teacher.
Damnit Tom, I was tested on this a month ago! I could’ve used the help. Anyway great vid! Love the content
I’m honored that you’d watch even after your test!
You're lucky you watched this after your test. It's rife with misinformation and errors.
Absolutely not ! he did and amazing explanation of the feudal society ! Its easy to understand and haters like you will not see the gold cause u only do is hate
Are there any videos that explain where titles came from? I've watched a lot of documentaries and played games based in the middle ages, and titles are often brought up, but I wonder where they came from, or where the concept started / originated?
Thanks for this. With the word 'feudalism" being thrown around all the time these days,(politically), I went looking for a good overview, and here it is.
Thank you so much for this!
Thank you so much for your lecture sir......you have no idea that to what extent you have relieved me ......
It’s an honor!
Great video as always, Tom!
Thanks!
Hi Tom. Thanks for your videos. I love them and use them often in my class. I teach 10th and 11th grade History here in Indonesia. Thanks again and keep up the great videos. Ish
Ayo imagine having a verified youtuber as your teacher
correct me if I'm wrong but are those alcohol bottles on his bookshelf ( 2:03 to the right)
also this was really helpful
Technically, one of them is what used to be a bottle of Slovakian mead. But it’s there as a sentimental item - not intended in any way to promote alcohol consumption. The other is just decorative glass.
So glad you found the video helpful!
Sir i from India, I loved your teaching thank u sirrrrrrrrrr so much
Me also 😊😊❤
Can you make videos for AP World History, please? I'm struggling to try to understand and remember all the material.
Cities were not ""outside the feudal hierarchy". They were a part of the system and acted as collective feudal lords. E.g. Venice called herself "Most Serene" which is a ducal title and elected a ruler called a doge to substitute a duke, or Novgorod had the full title "Great Master Novgorod" and invited a prince/duke-ranked nobleman to serve as a nominal head of the city.
Does anyone know what the 3 main ideas of this video are-
LMAO how was the assignment 😭
@@noyasenpai7431 i dont even knowwwwww
You’re telling me this isn’t just a mechanic from Mount and Blade?
great lecture, but I missed you talking abou the church. It had power during feudalism, right?
great content here. I would encourage viewers who are students to embrace this knowledge as a critical critique of the world that needs many solutions rather than merely a way to pass a test and gain a career... knowledge and wisdom are of far greater significance than one's own practical purposes...too...we should be inspired to challenge and change the paradigm.
what is the name of the song in the end?
Cheer~~~the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.😊
Good video I appreciate this dope information! :)
Thanks Jim Varney!! (Ernest P. Worrell)
I'm here because of Naruto and I learned a lot. Thanks.
Dang, dude... these are really good videos. Love it.
6:50 that was low key funny the way he just "hahahahahahah" :)))
GSAQSJHAS fr tho
Your lecture is very didactic. Thank you.
well-explained, thankyou so much
Thank you, sir!
Thank you so much for the explanation of feudalism. The USA 🇺🇸 seems like a feudalist country
Why couldn't I get a teacher as passionate about history as I am.
Thanks Mr. Richey
Our system is this, if not it's moving towards it
To what extent did feudalism
contribute to the French
Revolution?
I’m coming to your class in like 3 minutes
France in 1477 is the worst example possible. Louis XI king of France put a sudden end to feudalism. Burgundy returned to the king after the defeat of the Duke and Brittany became part f France with the wedding of Louis XI son with the young duchess. You should have chosen the XI th century when France was a chaos of feudal States where the vassals always switched sides when they had more to gain.
Thank you so much this really helped me out!!
Thank you so much... it's very helpful 💓💓
So it was essentially like the United States but with the States having more power being more independent but still technically part of the same nation? Makes sense
the rook according to my friend doesn't represent nobility, he says it represents guards or something like that
Sir if possible please post a video on ambedkar vs gandhi...
Read Dr Anand Ranganathan's essay in Swarajya magazine for that.
This TH-cam channel is about US and European history.
that was really useful thank you.
Would you say that society is experiencing a form of Feudalism at the moment?
I definitely would say that
Good vid richey, i like the way you turn from ancient era to early medieval. in short romans are over in the west, they aint maintaining their roads, kingdoms start coming up left right and center.
Pretty much!
Really nice analogy of chess ♟️. Explained things really well 😊
Informative. Love from India.
sooo good
thank you for this amazing video. the ncert book is very confusing [im an indian] therefore these videos helped me a lot
Thank you so much
The center is controlled by the most powerful. The one with the most supports is the king
Thank you so much sir.
i use this for assignments
very useful, thanks!
Guess what's back, back again.
It is definitely back. I completely agree 👍🏿
What century was this?
Why bother with details. Middle ages in some country. Didn't you watch the vid?
Thank you SO MUCH
It's so interesting.
We got Theo Von lecturing on Feudalism?
Nice.
the roads are the first to go
like....seneca misouri? wow i live right near there
Good info
Thanks
So, basically a bunch of poor people owed a bunch of rich people, who owed a smaller bunch of richer people, who owed an even smaller bunch of even richer people, who ultimately owed to one ultra-rich dude who technically ruled all of them...why does this sound familiar?
This wasn't debt as we understand it and comparing modern systems of credit and debt to feudalism is wholly dishonest and disrespectful to the peoples who lived under these systems.
@@Longlius I realize that, I was just making a joke.
thanks bro
i still find the title Landlord to be funny and outdated..
Has anyone ever told you that you look quite like Matt Damon? Tom Richey? More like Tom Ripley.
tahnk you
There very little that the Middle Ages ever happened.
If it did why aren’t there more records? Why aren’t there more places outside of Europe concerning this time? Why did they use a different calandra than everybody else?
Are you related to Theo Von? You all should look up his videos where you’ll hear a Louisiana accent on a very funny comedian and I swear they grew up in the same town, just probably on different sides lol
Medieval Richey gang is rising
Is it just me or does this teacher kinda look like Harrison Ford 🤔
help me