Movies and fairytale stories might have given us an idea on how a stratified society was like during the medieval era especially in Europe when there were countless royal lines of families that ruled lands...

During the feudalistic era in medieval Europe, the society was highly stratified ranging from the common citizens to a distinguished upper class where the ruling imperial family bestowed nobility titles...

The acquisition of nobility titles formed an important aspect of the feudalistic era when monarchical institutions were the ruling powers...

Fairytale stories would often include characters of nobility we have grown to love such as a prince or a knight both of whom we have grown to love because of the special role that they possess, more often than not heroic deeds that lead to the final “and they live happily ever after”...

The medieval era in Europe was largely governed through feudalism where the rule was based on personal loyalty and through the hugely subsistence agricultural nature of the economy...

Nobility can be many things including a social and historical concept This is different from social status or class which is more related to income ...

My oldest son and I watched a movie from his great collection “Robin Hood Prince of Thieves” There is a great quote in the movie which I was eager to use this week where Kevin Costner playing Robin Hood says, “Nobility is not a birth-right; it is defined by one’s actions...