Cam, that's one fair reading, but also think about the narrative which your comment is located within, plus all the assumptions and hierarchies your explanation privileges.
Do you think you might be explicating a position by propping up the power-structures of that position as a kind of received wisdom?
The history of ground rents might be interesting, if you want to explore a more everyday (less detached-political) approach to understanding how feudal societies might be as complex and dogmatic as renaissance ones - it's just that (perhaps) our society privileges the renaissance because that's our easy urban trope.
Sarah
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