found: Powelson, John P. A History of Wealth and Poverty, online at tqe.quaker.org("The absence of contract feudalism in Iberia also is attributed in part to the Reconquest, which began in the ninth and tenth centuries. With land regained from the Muslims, Iberian soldiers were mustered out as free peasants. For protection they committed themselves to lords in an institution known as behetría, 'by which the peasants themselves elected the seignior and also had the right to replace him should they decide that he was not serving the community.'")