For the writers who first gave feudalism its name, the existence of feudalism presupposed the existence of a noble cl...

Emil-Kunkin on August 16 at 01:34AM

Hi- the passage sets up a contradiction. The writers who theorized feudalism assumed the existence of a noble class, which required heritability. However, heritability did not appear until feudalism was in decline. From this, we know that the original theorists were wrong about feudalism requiring a noble class.

This is a decent match for A. While the part about it distorting history is a bit stronger than I expected, it is supposed by the passage.