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t. e. Homage ( / oʊˈmɑːʒ /) (from Medieval Latin hominaticum, lit. "pertaining to a man") in the Middle Ages was the ceremony in which a feudal tenant or vassal pledged reverence and submission to his feudal lord, receiving in exchange the symbolic title to his new position ( investiture ). It was a symbolic acknowledgement to the lord ...
Seigneur. Seigneur ( French pronunciation: [sɛɲœʁ] ⓘ) or lord is an originally feudal title in France before the Revolution, in New France and British North America until 1854, and in the Channel Islands to this day. The seigneur owned a seigneurie, seigneury, or lordship—a form of title or land tenure —as a fief, with its associated ...
The Duchy of Prussia ( German: Herzogtum Preußen, Polish: Księstwo Pruskie, Lithuanian: Prūsijos kunigaikštystė) or Ducal Prussia (German: Herzogliches Preußen; Polish: Prusy Książęce) was a duchy in the region of Prussia established as a result of secularization of the Monastic Prussia, the territory that remained under the control of ...
Ranger's Apprentice is a series written by Australian author John Flanagan. [1] [2] It began as twenty short stories Flanagan wrote for his son to get him interested in reading. [3] Ten years later, Flanagan found the stories again and decided to turn them into a book, which became the first novel in the series, The Ruins of Gorlan .
Fengjian. Fēngjiàn ( Chinese: 封建; lit. 'demarcation and establishment') was a governance system in Ancient China and Imperial China, whose social structure formed a decentralized system of confederation -like government. [1] The ruling class consisted of the Son of Heaven (king or emperor) and aristocracy, and the lower class consisted of ...
The Duchy of Aquitaine ( Occitan: Ducat d'Aquitània, IPA: [dyˈkad dakiˈtaɲɔ]; French: Duché d'Aquitaine, IPA: [dyʃe dakitɛn]) was a historical fiefdom in western, central, and southern areas of present-day France to the south of the river Loire, although its extent, as well as its name, fluctuated greatly over the centuries, at times ...
Tallage. Feudalism. v. t. e. Under the feudal system in England, a feoffee ( / fɛˈfiː, fiːˈfiː /) is a trustee who holds a fief (or "fee"), that is to say an estate in land, for the use of a beneficial owner. The term is more fully stated as a feoffee to uses of the beneficial owner. The use of such trustees developed towards the end of ...
