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Material Type: Exam; Professor: Whalen; Class: REC; Subject: HISTORY; University: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill; Term: Summer 1 2015;
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Sallie Oliver
(SH 131) in the notion of military service and public incentive. Historians coined the term “feudalism” in describing the relations between lords, vassals, and feodum. Personal dependency as Rosenwein argues was vital to the political, social, and economic organizations while separating gradations of power. Through three orders including “those who pray ( oratores ), those who fight ( bellatores ), and those who work ( laboratores )” complex networks of subordination allowed for meaningful power ties. (SH 131) A vassal served a lord voluntarily in hopes to gain public honor and fief. For poor vassals, the lords chose to shelter their workers in return for loyalty. Typically, an “homage” was paid to the lord as a ceremonial device where the vassal promised fealty and is sometimes referred to as the “passing of the hands” (CN 5/20) when the lord placed his hands on the head of a kneeling vassal-to-be. It was a sacred exchange. In regards an abbot relations these practices of “homage” to a lord were quite different because even abbots themselves sometimes served as vassals. In The Agreement between Count William of Aquitaine and Hugh of Lusignan, it is evidenced that empty promises had little to no consequence for a lord. Their power was in the sensitive balance of political relations regardless. Strong start, maybe ran out of time?