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		Her aim is simply to try to discover "how far vassalage and the fief, as they are generally understood, constituted institutions which are definable, comprehensible, and helpful to the understanding of medieval history" (p.
		Vassalage, for instance, in the traditional view, is taken to be an affective personal bond uniting a free man to his lord, a bond usually symbolized by a ceremony of submission ("homage") and sometimes argued to have had its origin in the allegiance of the members of a war-band to their military leader.
		Finally, in the traditional view, fief and vassalage are thought to have been unified and generalized, such that by a certain point (variously located depending on the national historiography in which one is working), most free men were vassals of some superior, and "held" their land in fief, rather than owning it.
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		Next is the Vassalage phase, where the player may attempt to change the neutral or hostile status of a nation (and the other player may try to prevent this).
		Vassalage is the act of trying to bring neutral or enemy regions under control -- simple occupation and destruction of enemy forces is not enough.
		Operations (of which Vassalage is not one) allow the player to move his forces about and conduct combat, pillage and even religious conversions (Christian, Muslim or Pagan).
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	SBU Dept. of History & Political Science: HIS 1113 Lecture Twenty-four (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Vassalage is a binding agreement between two people, both of whom are seigneurs.
		This use of the word vassal in the capitulary of 847 is not an indication that the vassalage institution we are discussing here is being refered to that time; for, there are many elements of vassalage missing from this context.
		Vassalage under the control of a suzerain soon became more organized and stable adding considerable stability to existing governments.
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		Vassalage and the fief were, of course, the basic institutions.
		When a man became a vassal of another, he knelt before him and placed his hands between his lord's hands as a sign of subordination, but immediately afterwards the lord raised the vassal to his feet and kissed him on the mouth in token of their social equality.
		When fiefs became hereditary, vassalage became less personal and multiple homages common, though frequently "liege homage" was reserved to the vassal's principal lord.
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	Christian History Handbook: Early Modern: Lecture Four (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Two interesting results of this frustrating socioeconomic situation were the revival of some of the old outdated aspects of the institution of vassalage and the renewed introduction of serfdom.
		As in the ninth and tenth centuries so again in the period from 1350 to 1450 vassalage was used by the great landowners for the maintenance of local security.
		Vassalage organizations acted as vigilante courts in the suppression of rebellion, the enforcement of rent collections and the imposition of repressive policies.
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	Vassalage Reform (90) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		That vassalage may only be sworn by the head of a house to another, thus binding their houses in the traditional bond of vassal and lord.
		That a swearing of vassalage in the field should be repeated in council as soon as possible.
		That the bond of vassalage be unbreakable, excepting when a vassal is forced to swear vassalage to another by military might, in which case he is wholly innocent, as his lord should have protected him, or in other cases specified by this motion.
	www.pfpiggott.freeserve.co.uk /absolutepower/vassalage%20reform%2090.htm (450 words)

	Lecture 21: Feudalism and the Feudal Relationship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		To swear fealty was tantamount to promising to refrain from any action that might threaten the well-being of the lord and to perform personal services for him at his request.
		The general effect of such a practice fragmented the land and authority from the highest to the lowest levels by the end of the 9th century.
		In other words, the personal relationships embodied in the concept of feudal society as it made its appearance in the 8th and 9th centuries had become, by the 10th an 11th centuries, merely the means for the acquisition of more private property.
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	ninemsn Encarta - Feudalism
		With the breakup of the Carolingian Empire in the 9th century, many powerful men strove to assemble their own bands of mounted vassals, giving them benefices in return for their services.
		Some of the weaker landowners then found themselves obliged to enter into vassalage and to concede their lands to the lordship of the more powerful, receiving them back as benefices.
		The greater lords were expected to protect their vassals, as the vassals were expected to serve their benefactors.
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	Vassalage
		Vassalage (n.) The state of being a vassal, or feudatory.
		Vassalage (n.) Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, the Greeks were held in vassalage by the Turks.
		Vassalage (n.) Valorous service, such as that performed by a vassal; valor; prowess; courage.
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	26 Shakespeare's Sonnets. The amazing web site. Commentary. Sonnet 26.
		vassalage is the duty and service of the vassal.
		Lord is possibly a reference to the title of the addressee, as champions of Pembroke or Southampton would infer.
		It is, however, just as likely to be a general term invoking the ideas of majesty of the beloved (in the eyes of the lover) and its concomitant vassalage.
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	May 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Peasants of a servile rank could not do this, while even free peasants were not of the "honorable" classes because of their involvement in manual labor.
		However, when we talk about landholding as part of the relationship of vassalage, we are not looking at cultivation, but at the lord's right to exploit the fruits of his fief.
		By the tenth century, vassalage and benefice-holding were recognized as a quid pro quo.
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	BE LOYAL AND FIRM FOOTED IN THE PATH OF VASSALAGE AND OBEDIEN... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		BE LOYAL AND FIRM FOOTED IN THE PATH OF VASSALAGE AND OBEDIEN...
		In the 16th Century the common enmity of Spain led to a brief flurry of diplomatic activity between England and Turkey.
		The sultan of Turkey wrote to Elizabeth I that he expected her to be "loyal and firm-footed in the path of vassalage and obedience and to manifest loyalty and subservience to the Ottoman throne.
	www.partitionofindia.com /_disk1/00000243.htm (147 words)

	Samaria (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		But just when success seemed to be within their reach, they suddenly broke up the seige, alarmed by a mysterious noise of chariots and horses and a great army, and fled, leaving their camp with all its contents behind them.
		Shalmaneser invaded Israel in the days of Hoshea, and reduced it to vassalage.
		He laid siege to Samaria (B.C. 723), which held out for three years, and was at length captured by Sargon, who completed the conquest Shalmaneser had begun (2 Kings 18:9-12; 17:3), and removed vast numbers of the tribes into captivity.
	www.www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/samaria.html (601 words)

	Vassalage: Definition of Vassalage in Webster's Dictionary 1913 Edition - Wunder Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Vassalage: Definition of Vassalage in Webster's Dictionary 1913 Edition - Wunder Dictionary
		Vassalage: Definition of Vassalage in Webster's Dictionary 1913 Edition
		Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, the Greeks were held in vassalage by the Turks.
	websters.wunderdictionary.com /dictionary/def/english/vassalage.html (56 words)

	History of Japan/Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
		They defined their domains as the area that could be defended from military rivals.
		Ties were fixed by vassalage, and land holdings were guaranteed in return for military service.
		The daimyo concentrated their vassals in castle towns and left the villagers to administer themselves and pay taxes.
	www.shotokai.cl /otros_datos/japan_history.html (3955 words)

	VASSALAGE OF HOPE HALLELUJAH PRODUCTIONS
		The late Dorothy Vassell is the founder of Vassalage of Hope Outreach Ministries and praising praying mother of Hallelujah Productions CEO JoANNA Ward.
		The ministry's focus primarily lies in seeking and ministering to "unchurched" souls.
		The Vassalage of Hope will officially establish its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia in January of 2005.
	www.hallelujahproductions.com /VASSALAGEOFHOPE.html (287 words)

	Charlemagne
		These changes are: new improved Region Control Charts; removal of almost all Militia Units (which created a change in the Levy levels); moving where Vassalage occurs in the turn sequence; and putting a limit on the purchase of Stratagem markers.
		Also, at least one Vassalage Stratagem must be expended.
		It is now possible for a stack of Units to attack and occupy the Bergs in a region, then Convert the Region, and finally take control of a region by Vassalage (with the benefit of the previous two steps).
	www.toad.net /~kmcp/charlemagne.html (1118 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Song of Roland - Major Themes
		A vassal gave his total loyalty in exchange for protection and vengeance should the vassal be killed in service of his lord.
		In The Song of Roland, vassalage is depicted as parallel to Christianity.
		Duty: Closely connected to the themes of vassalage and the will of God and man's place, duty is one of the key values of the poem.
	www.gradesaver.com /ClassicNotes/Titles/roland/themes.html (578 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Innocent III
		He also united with the enemies of Frederick II and invaded the Kingdom of Sicily with the purpose of wresting it from the youthful king and from the suzerainty of the pope.
		From Pedro II of Aragon he received that kingdom in vassalage and crowned him king at Rome in 1204.
		He prepared a crusade against the Moors and lived to see their power broken in Spain at the battle of Navas de Tolosa, in 1212.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08013a.htm (4244 words)

	AllRefer.com - Yorck von Wartenburg, Ludwig, Graf (German History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		When he realized that the expedition was doomed to failure he withdrew on his own responsibility from the fighting and concluded the Convention of Tauroggen with the Russians (see Taurage).
		His action was lauded by the nationalistic Prussians, desirous of escaping from their virtual vassalage to France, which had been imposed by the treaty of Tilsit in 1807 following Prussia's defeat by France.
		King Frederick William III of Prussia subsequently approved his act, and Prussia entered the coalition against Napoleon.
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	BERNARD, SAINT - Online Information article about BERNARD, SAINT
		In his dealings with Frederick, Innocent experienced grievous vicissitudes and disappointments, but finally became master of the situation.
		One nation onlythe France of Philip Augustuswas able to remain outside the Roman vassalage.
		There is not a word, in the documents concerning the relations of Philip Augustus with Rome, from which we may conclude that the Capetian crown submitted, or that the papacy wished to impose upon it the effective suzerainty of the Holy See.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BEC_BER/BERNARD_SAINT.html (9773 words)

	vassalage - OneLook Dictionary Search
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	Poetry X » Poetry Archives » William Shakespeare » "Sonnet 026: Lord Of My Love, To Whom In Vassalage"
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		Not ties of vassalage, but economy based on irrigated rice agriculture which required fairly complex social relations.
		Farming done by families on small plots that were intensively farmed.
		Loyalty shifts based in legal documents which rigidified vassalage arrangements, but at the same time could be broken if the vassal strong enough.
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	Lebanonwire.com \| Outspoken priest pulled few punches in condemnation of ‘vassalage’
		That would after all be only a re-editing of the bargaining carried out during the Gulf War …
		It is time to overcome communitarian resistances with a national call, and engage in a real national resistance, democratic and consensual, that seeks to free Lebanon from all vassalage.
		On March 19, 2001, I was happy to underline the consensus which was anticipated by such outstanding personalities representing the large historic communities ?
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	Zululand -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Zulus became historically important in the early 19th cent.
		under Shaka, whose conquests reduced many neighboring people to vassalage and caused others to flee.
		His successors soon encountered the Boer settlers migrating north into Natal (see KwaZulu-Natal) as part of the Great Trek.
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	vassalage : Definition from the Online Dictionary at Datasegment.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		vassalage : Definition from the Online Dictionary at Datasegment.com
		3 definitions found vassalage - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 : Vassalage *\Vas"salage\**, n.
		"The Countship of Foix, with six territorial vassalages." --Milman.
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	William Shakespeare's Sonnets 21-30
		Sonnet 25 - Let those who are in favour with their stars
		Sonnet 26 - Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
		Sonnet 27 - Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
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	William Shakespeare - Sonnet 26: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
		Sonnet 26: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage by William Shakespeare
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