Feudalism and seignorialism?

Question

what are the differences between them?

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Answer 1

I think it's mainly the difference between warlords and landlords. Seignorialism (or Manorialism) means that the landlord has the higher power. Whereas in feudalism, the landlord has higher landlords to answer to and pay money.

Answer 2

Seignorialism known in England as manorialism is a system of political, economic, and social relations between seigneurs, or lords, and their dependent farm laborers in the Middle Ages. In England, King Alfred decreed that every man should have a lord, and throughout medieval Western Europe seignorialism was the norm. Seignorialism is not to be confused with feudalism, which was a system of military and political relationships among the lords only.

Seignorialism performed two significant roles in the history of Western civilization: First, it provided a means of organizing an extremely localistic society in the Middle Ages; and second, it accomplished the homogenization of the bonded and the free labor of antiquity into a single class of peasants who, by the end of the Middle Ages, had acquired wide franchises and rights in their land.    

Feudalism was a system of society in which vassals acknowledged and fought for a lord in return for his protection for their persons and land tenure. The lord in turn paid allegiance to a king in return for his granting of their status. Feudalism was thus a comprehensive social system which defined authority and property rights.