In feudal times, the minor communities governed by feudal lords, were severally organized in the same rude way; and were held together only by the fealty of their respective rulers to some suzerain.
The special interest of this work lies in the fact that it expressed the feelings of the common people, groaning under the oppression of feudal lords.
The feeble rule of the German kings compelled the cities to form several confederacies for the purpose of resisting the extortionate tolls and downright robberies of feudal lords.
The German cities which shared in this commerce early formed the celebrated Hanseatic [27] League for protection against pirates and feudal lords.
He decreed that only the king's money was to circulate in the provinces owned directly by himself, thus limiting the right of coinage enjoyed by feudal lords.
All these privileges were vestiges of the powers which the nobles had enjoyed when they ruled their estates as feudal lords.
Wealthy bishoprics and monasteries were considered by feudal lords an admirable means of support for their younger sons, since the eldest born usually inherited the fief.
A great part of the mediæval towns, of which we begin to have some scanty records about the year 1000, appear to have originated on the manors of feudal lords or about a monastery or castle.
The curricula of such colleges, both of the official ones of feudal lords and of private ones, were diverse, but generally comprised elementary as well as higher education.
This Bushido had a tight grasp of the military class, which consisted of the retainers of feudal lords, who had not to work for their daily bread.
Feudal lords belonged to the category of Buke, in contradistinction to Kuge, namely, noble families attached direct to the Imperial courts.
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