Neofeudal

Ironically, the German university became more bourgeois just when contemporaries like Weber began to criticize the "social aristocratic tendency of our time" among the cultivated and when student subculture in the duelling corporations was becoming more neofeudal!

With that decline, there was the potential that papal ideology on sociopolitical issues would be neofeudal in orientation and yet have no neofeudal social groups or social order to defend.

The creoles' legitimacy as a neofeudal elite thus hinged rather precariously, not on a natural right of birth, but exclusively on a spotless record in imperial service.