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Mind your manners! Yes, my lord. To civilize is to Christianize! I work and I pay, I pray and I pay, I die and I pay. God wills it! Rich and poor alike in the Middle Ages were controlled by five specific institutions: the code of chivalry, the feudal system, Ch ....

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.... a sense of safety among the upper class. The feudal system involved the granting of land or a fief by a lord to his vassal. The lords and vassals were exclusively the very wealthy and powerful with the king as the highest lord and the knight as the lowest vassal. The main purpose of the feudal system was to provide fighting men who could ensure protection. Feudalism was the first emergence of organized government in the Dark Ages. Charlemagne was a born leader and a talented general, but also a man so convinced of the value of religion and education that he made a genuine attempt to revive the spiritual and cultural life in the Middle Ages. ....