Feudalism

She wrote a paper on feudalism.

Historians say the Black Death hastened the end of feudalism.

We escaped feudalism; we can escape capitalism.

Technofeudalism is like a modern version of feudalism in which the fiefs are in the digital world rather than the physical world.

Unlike feudalism, technofeudalism is not about the ownership of farmland, but rather the virtual landscape comprising the sum total of all humans' attention spans. Instead of crops, a digital fief can be used to cultivate data and consumption.

It was the beginning of a feudalism of the range, a barony rude enough, but a glorious one, albeit it began, like all feudalism, in large-handed theft and generous murdering.

The re-emergence of empire was thwarted by immense topographical variety, coastal confolutions, and wide-openness to the east, which made Christendom difficult to organize and defend as a whole from Viking, barbarian and Islamic attacks round its perimeter; by natural temperateness, which rendered large-scale disasters needing widespread rescue of populations rare (Jones 1981); and by the very devolved political system represented by feudalism, which encouraged the fissipation of whatever larger units did develop.