Largely by birth. A very few people might become ennobled by performing some great service to the king (saving him from getting killed in a battle, for example).
feudalism
During the Middle Ages, artists were mostly independent craftsmen. This put them outside the much talked about structure of medieval social classes, which consisted of peasants, nobles, and clergy. Along with merchants, craftsmen were what we would call middle class, a group most medieval social theorists chose to ignore when they wrote about the structure of feudalism.
Feudalism existed in Europe between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries. It declined with the rise of the merchant class.
The gamekeeper would have been in the peasant class.
The Crusades and the Renaissance significantly weakened the feudal system in Europe. The Crusades encouraged trade and the movement of people, leading to the growth of towns and a merchant class that diminished the power of feudal lords. Meanwhile, the Renaissance fostered a renewed interest in individualism and humanism, which shifted focus from feudal allegiances to personal ambition and social mobility. Together, these factors contributed to the decline of feudalism and the rise of more centralized forms of government and the early modern state.
The limits of Feudalism is that it bound people to a certain class depending on who they were. This meant that there was never a chance that a peasant could become a knight or a king. They would always be locked into their social class.
Feudalism
Feudalism pervaded all forms of life in the middle ages. There was a ruling class ( political/social) that controlled the economic system. The peasant and serf classes who did the labor for the ruling class were kept that way through taxes ( economic) and the inability to move out of that class to a upper class ( social/political/economic).
caste......they are called castes!
feudalism
A. Power was based on class relationships
A. Power was based on class relationships
Social ordering by rank or class refers to a system in which individuals or groups are organized based on their perceived status, wealth, or power within a society. This system often determines an individual's privileges, opportunities, and social interactions based on their position in the hierarchy. Examples include caste systems, feudalism, and social class structures.
Because people either decided to be rich or make fun of poor people.
Middle Ages Feudal Social Class System1. Monarchs2. High Clergy3. Nobles > Lesser Nobles4. Villein (free peasant) > Serfs / peasant
all the people knew their roles in a rigid class system
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