<P> However, even when the original feudal relationships had disappeared, there were many institutional remnants of feudalism left in place . Historian Georges Lefebvre explains how at an early stage of the French Revolution, on just one night of August 4, 1789, France abolished the long - lasting remnants of the feudal order . It announced, "The National Assembly abolishes the feudal system entirely ." Lefebvre explains: </P> <P> Without debate the Assembly enthusiastically adopted equality of taxation and redemption of all manorial rights except for those involving personal servitude--which were to be abolished without indemnification . Other proposals followed with the same success: the equality of legal punishment, admission of all to public office, abolition of venality in office, conversion of the tithe into payments subject to redemption, freedom of worship, prohibition of plural holding of benefices...Privileges of provinces and towns were offered as a last sacrifice . </P> <P> Originally the peasants were supposed to pay for the release of seigneurial dues; these dues affected more than a fourth of the farmland in France and provided most of the income of the large landowners . The majority refused to pay and in 1793 the obligation was cancelled . Thus the peasants got their land free, and also no longer paid the tithe to the church . </P> <P> The phrase "feudal society" as defined by Marc Bloch offers a wider definition than Ganshof's and includes within the feudal structure not only the warrior aristocracy bound by vassalage, but also the peasantry bound by manorialism, and the estates of the Church . Thus the feudal order embraces society from top to bottom, though the "powerful and well - differentiated social group of the urban classes" came to occupy a distinct position to some extent outside the classical feudal hierarchy . </P>

Describe any four features of feudalism prevalent in europe in the medieval period