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Domestic servant. Vagabond. Serf / Villein / Bordar / Cottar. Slave. v. t. e. Serfdom was the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism, and similar systems. It was a condition of debt bondage and indentured servitude with similarities to and differences from slavery.
- Serfdom Patent
The Serfdom Patent of 1 November 1781 aimed to abolish...
- Copyhold
Copyhold was a form of customary land ownership common from...
- Serfdom Patent
Serfdom developed in Eastern Europe after the Black Death epidemics of the mid-14th century, which stopped the eastward migration. The resulting high land-to-labour ratio - combined with Eastern Europe's vast, sparsely populated areas - gave the lords an incentive to bind the remaining peasantry to their land.
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Catherine II [a] (born Princess Sophie Augusta Frederica von Anhalt-Zerbst; 2 May 1729 – 17 November 1796), [b] most commonly known as Catherine the Great, [c] was the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. [1] She came to power after overthrowing her husband, Peter III.
Serfdom in Russia. A Peasant Leaving His Landlord on Yuriev Day, painting by Sergei V. Ivanov. The term serf ( Russian: крепостной крестьянин, romanized : krepostnoy krest'yanin, lit. 'bonded peasant'), in the sense of an unfree peasant of tsarist Russia, meant an unfree person who, unlike a slave, historically could be sold ...
Migration of the Serbs. (painting) Seoba Srba [a] (English: Migration of the Serbs) is a set of four similar oil paintings by the Serbian artist Paja Jovanović that depict Serbs, led by Archbishop Arsenije III, fleeing Old Serbia during the Great Serb Migration of 1690–91.
Serbian Revival. The Serbian Revival refers to a period in the history of the Serbs between the 18th century and the de jure establishment of the Principality of Serbia (1878). It began in Habsburg territory, in Sremski Karlovci. [55] The "Serbian renaissance" is said to have begun in 17th-century Banat. [56]
Dec 4, 2018 · Definition. Medieval Serf s (aka villeins) were unfree labourers who worked the land of a landowner (or tenant) in return for physical and legal protection and the right to work a separate piece of land for their own basic needs. Serfs made up 75% of the medieval population but were not slaves as only their labour could be bought, not their person.
