Feudal Lords Quotes

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

On Saturday - that was St. Valentine's Day-they burnt the Jews on a wooden platform in their cemetery. There were about two thousand people of them. Those who wanted to baptize themselves were spared. Some say that about a thousand accepted baptism. Many small children were taken out of the fire and baptized against the will of their fathers and mothers. And everything that was owed to the Jews was cancelled, and the Jews had to surrender all pledges and notes that they had taken for debts. The council, however, took the cash that the Jews possessed and divided it among the working-men proportionately. The money was indeed the thing that killed the Jews. If they had been poor and if the feudal lords had not been in debt to them, they would not have been burnt

Feudalism is an economic system where a few people own all the land and the others have no option but to be serfs on such a feudal estate. We now condemn feudalism. We condemn not merely the feudal lords but we condemn the whole structure of rules that sustained feudalism. I am asking people to think similarly about the world economy.

The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.

At the Norman Invasion, the Saxon thanes were themselves humbled in turn; the manors were given a more legal character and transferred to favourites of William the Conqueror.

In the Middle Ages when the feudal lords … to enlarge their domains, to increase their power, their prestige and their wealth … declared war upon one another. But they themselves did not go to war any more than the modern feudal lords, the barons of Wall Street go to war.

Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.

As things stand now the feudal lords are content to look on while the Shogunate carries on in a highhanded manner. Neither the lords nor the Shogun can be depended upon, and so our only hope lies in grass-roots heroes.