In early feudalism, it was pretty close. Feudal society was just gangs of armed men holding strong points. Most realized they needed serfs to grow food for them and their horses, so they had to protect their property (serfs) that were bound to the land. They had almost no restraints on their actions.
During the late medeival period, the church had some influence, but not very much.
“...Feudal society was just gangs of armed men holding strong points. Most realized they needed serfs to grow food for them and their horses...”
As feudalism evolved it became a very complicated patchwork of serfs, freed, and indentured farmers and tradesmen governed by guilds and the nobles. The nobles had their sphere, the clergy theirs, and people theirs. By the late medeival people generally guarded their ‘rights’ and privileges accumulated over generations. Very facinating.
Totalitarian anarchy = despotism to me. This is what tyranny looks like.