The Ottomans attempted to create peace by dividing Mt Lebanon into a Christian district and a Druze district, but this would merely create geographic powerbases for the warring parties, and it plunged the region back into civil conflict which included not only the sectarian warfare but a Maronite revolt against the Feudal class, which ended in 1858 with the overthrow of the old feudal system of taxes and levies.

** Feudal levies a form of medieval conscription

Feudal landholders were entitled to style themselves baron if they were nobles ; a roturier ( commoner ) could only be a seigneur de la baronnie ( lord of the barony ).

Since at least the 1960s, when Marc Bloch's Feudal Society ( 1939 ) was first translated into English in 1961, many medieval historians have included a broader social aspect that includes not only the nobility but all three estates of the realm, adding the peasantry bonds of manorialism and the estates of the Church ; this is sometimes referred to as " feudal society " since it encompasses all members of society into the feudal system.

In the third film, Donatello is the only Turtle who is not tempted to stay in the Feudal Japan of the past, saying that he can't live without technology.

Prior to the Act coming into effect, Scottish Feudal Baronies ( including Lordships and Earldoms ) were the only genuine title of UK nobility capable of being transferred following the sale of land containing a " caput " ( or the sale of a feudal superiority ).

Feudal baronies ( or " baronies by tenure ") are now obsolete in England and without any legal force but any such historical titles are held in gross, that is to say are deemed to be enveloped within a more modern extant peerage title also held by the holder, sometimes along with vestigial manorial rights and tenures by grand serjeanty.

While it is easy to see in Ambrose Philips an effort at modernist triumph, it is no less the case that Pope's artificially restricted pastoral was a statement of what the ideal ( based on an older Feudal arrangement ) should be.

It should therefore be distinguished from the Feudal barony, held from the king, which possessed no such independent authority.

In showing that Scottish feudal baronies are titles of nobility, reference may be made, amongst others, to Lyon Court in the Petition of Maclean of Ardgour for a Birthbrieve by Interlocutor dated 26 February 1943 which " Finds and Declares that the Minor Barons of Scotland are, and have both in this Nobiliary Court, and in the Court of Session, been recognised as ' titled ' nobility, and that the estait of the Baronage ( The Barones Minores ) is of the ancient Feudal Nobility of Scotland ".

The original meaning of the word partakes of both these senses: in the Feudal Era, knights were expected to be champions of both prowess in combat and of causes, the latter most commonly being either patriotic, romantic or religious in nature.

In 2010, GamePro included Armakuni in their article " Top Ten video game ninjas " (" If Rambo had been born in Feudal Japan, he ’ d be a lot like Armakuni ").

In InuYasha: Feudal Combat, up to four characters, two per team, may be present at once in a battle, however, two player characters cannot be on the same team.

He is best known for his pioneering studies French Rural History and Feudal Society and his posthumously-published unfinished meditation on the writing of history, The Historian's Craft.

The medieval period was now clearly separated into three distinct periods: Early Feudal, High and Late Chivalric Feudal, for each period with a distinct technology.

In 1832 he was made Minister for the Feudal Lord in order to fix the financial problems of the Hiji clan.

The seigneurial system was formally abolished by the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada and assented to by Governor Lord Elgin on 22 June 1854 in An Act for the Abolition of Feudal Rights and Duties in Lower Canada which was brought into effect on 18 December of that year.

See Feudal barony of Barnstaple for full details.

* Kessen, Kessen II and Kessen III-Real time strategy games for the PS2 set in Feudal Japan and China during the Three Kingdoms period.

From Feudal to modern times, Toyosato has been the home of many merchants because of economic encouragement from daimyo and because traffic can flow smoothly ( Nakasendō ), although it was not an area that had good irrigation for agriculture.

There is even a popular literary tradition that arose during the Tang Dynasty which centered on Negrito-slaves who used supernatural physical abilities to save kidnapped damsels in distress and to swim to the bottom of raging rivers to retrieve treasures for their Feudal Lords ( see Kunlun Nu )

* Feudal land tenure, a system of mutual obligations under which a royal or noble personage granted a fiefdom — some degree of interest in the use or revenues of a given parcel of land — in exchange for a claim on services such as military service or simply maintenance of the land in which the lord continued to have an interest.

A feudal magnate was assessed for certain Feudal aids according as to how many knight's-fees he was overlord to.

At first, he attempted to carry on the government without a change of principles, but he soon found it necessary to come to an understanding with the Feudal and Federal parties and was responsible for the conduct of the negotiations which in the elections of the same year gave a majority to the different groups of the National and Clerical opposition.

Florence's literary endeavours are referenced in several books, notably in a scene in " Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit ", when she induces Bertie to take her to a garish nightclub for research purposes, and then manages to get him arrested when the club is raided.

Knight-service was a form of Feudal land tenure under which a knight held a fief or estate of land termed a knight's fee ( fee being synonymous with fief ) from an overlord conditional on him as tenant performing military service for his overlord.

The chief sources of information for the extent and development of knight-service are the returns ( cartae ) of the barons ( i. e. the tenants-in-chief ) in 1166, informing the king, at his request, of the names of their tenants by knight-service with the number of fees they held, supplemented by the payments for scutage recorded on the pipe rolls, by the later returns printed in the Book of Fees, and by the still later ones collected in Feudal Aids.

The Arousal was published and distributed free of cost in Karachi and Lahore and became notorious for its mocking attacks and madcap articles aimed at the country's Feudal and Capitalist elite and many orthodox politico-religious parties.

However, the game was praised for its graphics and its feel of the Feudal Japanese environment.

He is one of the two primary characters — members of the Uesugi Netherworld Force — responsible for exorcising undead soldiers from the Japanese Feudal Era, which are taking part in a modern-day war, led by reincarnations of various feudal era warlords, including the recently-released spirit of Takeda Shingen.

Feudal lords ruled the region for decades ; semi-feudal conditions still exist.

Feudal tenure of Belmonte is recorded to have been purchased from the Tarsia for 28, 220 ducats.

By 1285 inflation had become rampant ( in part due to population pressures ) and some nobles charged rent based on customary fixed rates, based on the Feudal system, so as the price of goods and services rose ( from inflation ), the income of those nobles remained stagnant ( effectively dropping ).

" In his 14th chapter, " Yearly Chronicle of the Feudal Lords ", he writes, " I have read all the royal annals ( chunqiu li pudie 春秋曆譜諜 ) up until the time of King Li of Zhou.

Feudal rights were invested in the sovereign, with the local lord retaining some duties as enforcer of local justice and intermediary between the new inhabitants — required to build houses within a specified time, often a year — and the representatives of the sovereign.

Much later, in Chapter 6 of the 1954 Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit ( American title: Bertie Wooster Sees it Through ) after being hauled before the Vinton Street Magistrate, Bertie tells his butler:

Feudal strongmen sometimes located themselves within medieval institutional order, taking shogunal titles, while in other times they assumed titles that seemed to give them a non-Japanese identity.

Wharton ’ s political views were so far removed from the mainstream that they ’ re practically unclassifiable – a feudalist and a rabid reactionary, certainly ( he invented the fictitious Feudal and Reactionary Herald ).

Feudal lords gained or lost social power according to how well they accommodated this new class of people into their domains and ' courts '.

The term " Feudal Republic " was never used by the Novgorodians themselves ( indeed, feudalism is a seventeenth-century scholarly term ); rather they referred to their city-state as " His Majesty ( or Sovereign ) Lord Novgorod the Great " ( Государь Господин Великий Новгород / Gosudar ' Gospodin Velikiy Novgorod ), or more often as " Lord Novgorod the Great " ( Господин Великий Новгород / Gospodin Velikiy Novgorod ); The entire region-the city and its vast hinterlands-was known as The Novgorodian Land.

Feudal lords promote to general when they reach diagonal lines marked on the board.