Under the system of 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. A book of hours is the most common type of surviving Medieval Illuminated manuscript. Feudalism, a term first used in the early modern period (17th century in its most classic sense refers to a Medieval Europe Political system composed "Heir" and "Heiress" redirect here For the men and women fragrances endorsed by Paris Hilton see Heiress (fragrance. An allegiance is a duty of fidelity said to be owed by a subject or a Citizen to his/her state or sovereign. A vassal (also called feodary or fedary) in the terminology that both preceded and accompanied the feudalism of Medieval Europe, 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.

Derogatory usage

In contemporary usage, fiefdomism can refer to behavior of bureaucrats or small time politicians when information or programs are isolated and jealously guarded from other bureaucrats or small time politicians in order to preserve their power at the expense of making government worse. A bureaucrat is a member of a Bureaucracy, usually within an institution of the Government. A politician (from Greek " Polis " is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of Politics or a person

See also

• Nobility
• Serfdom
• Appanage (consisting in part of the liege's domain, granted to a junior relative)
• Knight-service
• Enfeoffment
• Feoffee

Sources and references

Nobility is a government-privileged title which may be either hereditary (see Hereditary titles) or for a lifetime An apanage or appanage is the grant of an estate titles offices or other things of value to the younger male children of a sovereign who under the system of Knight-service was the dominant and distinctive tenure of land as a Fief associated with a Knight under the English Feudal system. Under the feudal system, enfeoffment was the deed by which a person was given land in exchange for a pledge of service Feoffee, or more correctly within this context feoffee to uses, is a historical term relating to the law of trusts and equity

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