What yearsdid feudalism exist?

Answer 1

Answer410 AD to late 1400's. A 1000 years. AnswerI would say probably 888, with the death of Charles the Fat, to perhaps the end of the Hundred Years War, when France became more unified than it had been, though it might have continued in the Holy Roman Empire somewhat longer. Others might equate it with the Middle Ages, and still others say something else, which is fine with me, because there is no official answer.

This is a difficult question. Feudalism is not quite the same as serfdom. The idea of feudalism is so complicated that the section on the history of feudalism in Wikipedia is not about the history of feudal society, but about how the word feudalism has been used through time.

Feudalism is a system of mutual dependency and duty like the manorial system with lords and serfs, but it had the added feature of a weak central government trying to rule through nobles who might oppose it. This was the condition of France and the Holy Roman Empire in the period of about 850 or 900 on, and it was the condition of England starting with 1066. But it required some sort of central government, so perhaps it did not happen in Italy or Spain, for most of the Middle Ages. And it required a hierarchical structure of control, which did not seem to prevail in the eastern regions to the extent it did elsewhere. It might have begun in Scandinavia as the the various small kingdoms there consolidated, or not, depending on one's viewpoint.

Answer 2

Feudalism in Europe began in 410 AD with the fall of Rome and went a 1000 years until 1400 when exploring began.

Answer 3

410 AD to 1400. A 1,000 years.