Feudalism

The feudalism (of the Latin feudum , Stronghold) is often compared to the Féodalité.

However, if the two terms were created by the historians, and were employed a time to mark the one former period contempt, the term “feudalism” is more recent. It appears at the 19th century century and indicates in the Marxist historians the mode of production which succeeds the slave system of the Antiquité and precedes the capitalist economy.

Historically, the study of the transition from the “feudal age” to the “industrial age” is former to the Marxist historians . One finds already this idea at Augustin Thierry, historian of the beginning of the 19th century, which was secretary of Saint-Simon (count of) of 1814 with 1817. Saint-Simon made these historical studies an interpretation probably rather personal, which one finds transformed a little at Auguste Count, in the form of the Loi of the three states (theological, Métaphysique, positive), like in the movement Saint-Simonian, which influenced the Marxisme directly, via the branch of Armand Bazard.

The expressions feudal, feudality, feudalism,… can be used without giving exactly the events in their historical context. There can be in certain cases a certain form of Historicisme in the use of these terms.

The historian Georges Duby employs the feudalism term in his description of the three orders to the medieval time. It does not seem that there is historicism in the approaches of Georges Duby.

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