Under Frederick the feudal (or manorial) system developed further than it had during the Normans. Feudal towns were controlled by their resident lords, but there were also demesnial cities — Trapani and Agrigento but also smaller ones like Vizzini, Taormina and Calascibetta — that answered directly to the Crown and were administered by local councils of minor nobles called jurats. Louis Mendola and Jaqueline Alio, The Peoples of Sicily: A Multicultural Legacy, 77.