FOOTNOTES
[1] See page 312.
[2] The word has nothing to do with "feuds," though these were common enough in feudal times. It comes from the medieval Latin feudum, from which are desired the French fief and the English fee.
[3] See pages 472, 478.
[4] The practice of primogeniture has now been abolished by the laws of the various European countries and is not recognized in the United States. It still prevails, however, in England.
[5] Latin homo, "man."
[6] Sir Walter Scott's novel, Ivanhoe (chapter xliii), contains an account of a judicial duel.
[7] See page 326.
[8] See page 331.
[9] See the illustrations, pages 408, 421, 422, 473.
[10] The French form of the word is château.
[11] A good example is the "White Tower," which forms a part of the Tower of London. It was built by William the Conqueror. See the illustration, page 498.
[12] See page 560.
[13] Malory, Morte d'Arthur, xxi, 13. See also Tennyson's poem, Sir Galahad, for a beautiful presentation of the ideal knight.
[14] Sir Walter Scott's novel, Ivanhoe (chapter xii), contains a description of a tournament.
[15] Don Quixote, by the Spanish writer, Cervantes (1547-1616 A.D.), is a famous satire on chivalry. Our American "Mark Twain" also stripped off the gilt and tinsel of chivalry in his amusing story entitled A Connecticut Yankee at the Court of King Arthur.
[16] See page 208.
[17] According to Domesday Book (see page 499) there were 9250 manors, of which William the Conqueror possessed 1422. His manors lay in about thirty counties.
[18] This "open field" system of agriculture, as it is usually called, still survives in some parts of Europe. See the plan of Hitchin Manor, page 435.
[19] See page 581-582.
[20] See page 612.