Some of the villages operate "feudally." It's not a metaphor.

Shi'ite parties include the more moderate Amal under Nabih Berri and the more radical Hezbollah (see below), former rivals but now at least temporarily allied; Druze are largely associated with the Progressive Socialist Party led by the leftist yet feudally based Jumblatt family, now somewhat tenuously aligned with the Futures Party.

For the troubadours and the medieval knights, the courtly domna or the lady of the castle is feudally superior and is obviously idealised as 'my lord' (maidon) and as beloved-goddess worthy of veneration and praise.

what is permissible is 'embrace' and 'service' the feudally superior beloved-goddess rather than union.

Feudally politicising historiographers--until the 17th century

In "Like Beauty," America is Christian-dominated and feudally governed.

Her grandfather on her father's side was a rich landlord, living almost feudally with many servants and workers laboring under him.

For example, the earlier existence of a centralized government and a classic culture may be important for reintegrating a feudally fragmented society by providing vestigial administrative, governmental, and social forms that serve as root stock from which new forms can develop, as well as an authoritative and widely accepted ideology that can be used to legitimate them.

The individual settler held his land, as his descendants in Norway still express it, by the same right as the King held his crown, by udal right, or adel,--that is, noble right." The French have occupied Canada, not udally, or by noble right, but feudally, or by ignoble right.

The politics of empire(s) are but a shadowy hand as this family--never named, individually or collectively--struggle to survive between their urban origins and existence in the feudally organized villages of the northern Syrian littoral, where they are dependent on the peasantry, from whom, as "city folk" (yet ones with village ties), they carefully distinguish themselves.

Shi'ite parties include the more moderate Amal under Nabih Berri and the more radical Hizballah (see below), former rivals but now at least temporarily allied; Druze are largely associated with the Progressive Socialist Party led by the leftist yet feudally based Jumblatt family, now somewhat tenuously aligned with the Futures Party.