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Who did the feudal lords shift power to?

Merchants and the common people.


What is a vassalage?

Vassalage is the relationship between the feudal lord and his vassal. Kings had higher lords as vassals, and higher lords had lower lords as vassals. The practice was called subinfeudation.


At the end of the Middle Ages power shifted from Feudal Lords to?

Kings and Popes... I believe. (:


How did the growth of towns hurt the feudal system?

The "feudal system" (or what we call the feudal system), was based on a system of lords and vassals. I lord gave out a fief, a income producing territory (sometimes a land to grow crops on, sometimes a road with permission to tax it), and that created loyalty to the lord in return for protection. The agricultural revolution led to a boom in population and because of that, these rural estates ran by lords could no longer support every child being born, so there was an urbanization that took place during this time. As a result, towns could produce goods outside of the essentials for survival and they became the center of economy. The majority of the population remained farmers, but the center of an area shifted from the rural estate to that of the city. As a result, lords lost a lot of the power they had had under the "feudal system" and the royalty began to regain a lot of the control they had lost during the rural based system some still call the "feudal system


What role did monarchs and lords and ladies and knights and peasants play in the Feudal system and what did they do to contribute to the system?

They were to keep an eye out for the king. The lords and ladies hired knights and gave money to the king when needed.