“• FEUDAL” на українській мові

The fact that feudal tenure commonly served an ostensibly military purpose, that of providing armed men for a lord's host, licensed kings to express their superior lordship by manipulating the descent of feudally held lands.

The ‘historicising’ approach, the aristocratic strangeness of a highly artificial, elaborate, feudally coded language, falls away.

So it's pretty much like a feudal system of the kings where people are thrown into prison and they have no way of getting out.

Here we see the germ of a practice which later on developed into the European feudal system.

For example, in his description of twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scotland, he questions the extent to which the kings ‘ feudalised ’ Scotland, suggesting instead that their policies were a mixture of old and new.