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OpenStudy (anonymous):

What property rights did women have in the feudal system?

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OpenStudy (anonymous):

okay no problem(: take your time.

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Feudalism was the major political system of the Middle Ages. A lord's (or lady's) lands were worked in vassalage by serfs and freemen, who owed their liege farm goods and work for the privilege of his protection The lord might then owe his services in war to a lord or church official over him, who in turn owed the king of the country. However unsophisticated (or, well, feudal) the system may seem, it was agreed on by most medieval political theorists. The 12th-Century cleric John of Salisbury declared that the king existed for the benefit of the people, not vice-versa. Therefore, a king who truly did his job was a king; a usurper who was merely trying to fill his own pockets was a tyrant and was not intended by God to rule. In 1301, Egidius Romanus concluded that since all power derived from God, the pope was the supreme ruler of the Christian world. Through him, kings gained the Divine Right to Rule. Authority came from right, not might. Right came from God, but not through any particular moral or intellectual fitness.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I think women did not have property rights at that time, the Middle Ages.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Women did not have many rights at all in the Feudal System. Mostly women in the feudal system were in charge of the private household, and in charge of raising children. C=

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