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单词 bastard feudalism
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bastard feudalism
bastard feudalism n. a social system considered to resemble feudalism; spec. (British History) a name given to a social structure of the later Middle Ages in which the bond between a man and his lord was financial and personal, in an effort to distinguish it from the earlier feudal system in which the relationship was tenurial and hereditary.
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1839 Morning Chron. 25 Mar. Their blow will be aimed at the power that imposes the Corn-laws—at the bastard feudalism that has outlived its season of supremacy.
1885 C. Plummer Fortescue's Governance of Eng. (rev. ed.) Introd. 15 It saw the beginning of that bastard feudalism, which, in place of the primitive relation of a lord to his tenants, surrounded the great man with a horde of retainers.
1941 Econ. Hist. Rev. 11 94 The indenture, one of the notable means by which true tenurial feudalism was ousted by the personal and financial ties of ‘bastard feudalism’, was still of comparatively slight importance.
2002 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Oct. 40/1 Analysis of the origins of ‘bastard feudalism’, based on money and contracts rather than grants of land, does not fit well with what is essentially a chronological account.
extracted from bastardn.adj.adv.
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