| 词汇 | vassal |
| 释义 | vassal noun[ C ] uk /ˈvæs.əl/ us /ˈvæs.əl/ in medieval Europe, a man who agreed to fight for a king or lord (= rich and powerful land owner) when needed, in exchange for land to live on（中世纪）封臣 (alsovassal state) a country that is controlled by a more powerful country, and has to provide military support or pay money to it when needed附庸国 Middle Ages (medieval Period) 501-1500 alchemy Anglo-Saxon bestiary Black Death bubonic plague byzantine chivalric Hejira Hijrah joust Lancastrian mangonel mead hall Moorish Norman pre-Columbian pre-feudal the Norman Conquest troubadour Yorkist You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Soldiers & people who fight in wars People who serve other people vassal | American Dictionaryvassal noun[ C ] us/ˈvæs·əl/ world history a person in the Middle Ages who promises to be loyal to a lord (= a man of high social rank) who will protect him or her Examples of vassalvassal He had to hold court, dispense justice, reward faithful vassals, punish or take the field against enemies, and settle claims between contesting parties. Technically, this term refers to the process of reducing individuals to the status of vassals. The stability of feudal society had always depended upon a relationship of trust between lords and vassals. He dispensed justice in the name of the chapter, was responsible for the surveillance of the precinct, represented the chapter and received homage from vassals. The feudal king was primus inter pares among his vassals, yet he was always much more. The need for money made the lord increasingly concerned to turn the fiefs of his vassals to his own financial advantage when he could. The capability of the vassals to fight and rebel provides an incentive for rulers to respect their rights. Obviously, as we have seen in other monasteries, the abbot could thus create his own separate endowment with the surplus and even grant property in benefice to ministerials or vassals. Then the rest of the year was covered, a month at a time, by each of seven vassals, in return for the fiefs they held of the count. On the other hand, with the expansion of feudal ties, there was a growing expectation that any lord ought to resolve the disputes among his own vassals. The enfeoffed knight, belonging to several bands of vassals, protected by each of his patrons against all the others, was virtually free of the strictest of military and judicial obligations. Because of this principle of local distribution, the dominion of the crown vassals could not consolidate themselves into great sovereign courts as they could on the continent. Medieval law was indeed profoundly conservative, and most medieval vassals took it for granted that the right of resistance was a law which could not be abrogated. In the 1630s, the kabuki-mono subculture spread among shogunal vassals and chonin. We talk about feudal conveyancing, the feudal system, superiors, and vassals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of vassal These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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