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The Three Orders
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How can we say that the basis of feudalism was weakening?

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From the eleventh century, the personal bonds that had been the basis of feudalism were weakening, because economic transactions were becoming more and more money based.

Lords found it convenient to ask for rent in cash, not services, and cultivators were selling their crops for money (instead of exchanging them for other goods) to traders, who would then take such goods to be sold in the towns.

The increasing use of money began to influence prices, which became higher in times of poor harvests. In England, for instance, agricultrual prices doubled between the 1270s and the 1320s.

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