Has there ever been a formally p2p feudal system, where there is a nobility, but no monarch, not even a weak/nominal one? And feudal commitment is to the decentralized collective of nobles rather than a central imperium?
Not Hanseatic league style trading federation, Land-based.
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Hard to describe Medieval Iceland in the context of aristocracy as we understand it; the Icelanders had a very idiosyncratic conceptualization of property rights/obligations, not to mention a fairly alien system of, and approach to, class distinctions.
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Specifically, the senatorial aristocratic oligarchy that emerged amid the weakening of the tribunes’ power and the assemblies’ authority.
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Defntly Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Elected and weak monarchs, oligarchy relying on feudal plunder of own citizens. Hostile takeover is what it lead to.
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Without a sense of individualized (or at least familial) land rights, you can't really have feudalism. You can have (and there were) all manner of aristocracy-esque structures within tribes and confederacies, but the formulation, execution, and transfer of power doesn't gel well.
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