How did medieval society get overturned?

by Inferno221

From my knowledge years ago in highschool, I was told the basic hierarchy of medieval society:

  • The king + queen

  • The nobles + holy church men

  • The Knights

  • A shit load of peasants

I was told that nobles kept quarreling with the king to get more power, but it wasn't until the knights wanted more power that the peasants realized the whole system sucked, and overthrew it. How true is this/what's different?

TheGreenReaper7

If this hierarchical definition of society (problematic in itself) is your definition of 'medieval society', then this medieval society lasted well beyond the Middle Ages. There was nowhere, within my knowledge of medieval Europe, where the monarchies or aristocracies had been 'overthrown' by the peasantry.

If you want to continue believing that medieval society was 'overturned' rather than changing and transforming, then I can't help you. It's simply not true within our current accepted periodisation of history and you'd have to stretch the Middle Ages into the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries (Early Modern) which is well beyond my expertise and actually stretches into the beginning of the Modern period.