TË DHËNA HISTORIKE RRETH FEUDALIZMIT NË TROJET SHQIPTARE GJATË MESJETËS SË MESME DHE TË VONË (SHEK. XI – XV)
HISTORICAL DATA ABOUT FEUDALISM IN ALBANIA LANDS DURING THE MIDDLE AND LATER MIDDLE AGES (11th – 15th CENTURIES)

Summary/Abstract: The emergence and spread of feudalism as a new economic, political and social organization is the main characteristic of the history of medieval Albania between the 11th and 15th centuries. This new system prepared a suitable ground for creation and establishment of the first formations of Albanian feudal state elite. The way that led to formations of feudal relations in Albania has been long and complicated. Transition to the medieval period in the Albanian regions shifted the economic centre gravity into villages, where majority of the population lived in time when the economic function of towns was reduced drastically. The process of feudalism did not develop simultaneously in uniformity in all Albanian lands, nor was it completed fully in the period between the 11th and 15 centuries. This period constituted the first stage of the formation of feudal relations, although its processes continued in the second stage, between 11th and 15th centuries, when Albania reached a fuller development of feudal relations. In the period between the 12th and 15th centuries vertical structure of Albanian feudal society increasingly developed, with economic dependence relation deepening. The legal and economic involvement of the agrarian population with feudal property, not only in plain field areas, but also in mountainous and hilly reliefs. This intensity of the development of feudalism at a relatively rapid pace coincided with degradation of the Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos Dynasty ruling.

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