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  2. Manorialism - Wikipedia

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    Manorialism faded away slowly and piecemeal, along with its most vivid feature in the landscape, the open field system. It outlasted serfdom in the sense that it continued with freehold labourers. As an economic system, it outlasted feudalism, according to Andrew Jones, because "it could maintain a warrior, but it could equally well maintain a ...

  3. Lord of the manor - Wikipedia

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    The origins of the lordship of manors arose in the Anglo-Saxon system of manorialism. Following the Norman conquest , land at the manorial level was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 [ 4 ] (the Normans' registry in Sicily was called, in Latin , the Catalogus Baronum , compiled a few years later).

  4. Vassal - Wikipedia

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    A vassal swears the oath of fealty before Count Palatine Frederick I of the Palatinate.. A vassal [1] or liege subject [2] is a person regarded as having a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch, in the context of the feudal system in medieval Europe.

  5. Feudalism - Wikipedia

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    The adjective feudal was in use by at least 1405, and the noun feudalism was in use by the end of the 18th century, [4] paralleling the French féodalité.. According to a classic definition by François Louis Ganshof (1944), [1] feudalism describes a set of reciprocal legal and military obligations of the warrior nobility that revolved around the key concepts of lords, vassals and fiefs, [1 ...

  6. Manor house - Wikipedia

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    The work force on haciendas varied, depending on the type of hacienda and where it was located. Casona is old manor houses in León, Asturias and Cantabria following the so-called "casa montañesa architecture". Most of them were built in the 17th and 18th centuries. Typologically they are halfway between rustic houses and palaces

  7. Serfdom - Wikipedia

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    Most manorial work was segregated by gender during the regular times of the year. During the harvest , the whole family was expected to work the fields. A major difficulty of a serf's life was that his work for his lord coincided with, and took precedence over, the work he had to perform on his own lands: when the lord's crops were ready to be ...

  8. History of Europe - Wikipedia

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    Over time, feudalism and manorialism arose, providing for division of land and labour, as well as a broad if uneven hierarchy of law and protection. These localised hierarchies were based on the bond of common people to the land on which they worked, and to a lord, who would provide and administer both local law to settle disputes among the ...

  9. Feudalism in England - Wikipedia

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    Feudalism as practiced in the Kingdom of England during the medieval period was a system of political, military, and socio-economic organization based on land tenure. ...