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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › SerfdomSerfdom - Wikipedia

    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...

  2. The term feudal is a tricky one, because few scholars can quite agree on what it means these days. Seventeenth-century historians and lawyers who studied the Middle Ages decided to give a common name to the diverse landowner-tenant arrangements that existed in northwest Europe during the Middle Ages, starting with the collapse of Charlemagne's empire in the late ninth century and declining ...

  3. Serfs (urban:poor, rural: poor) Life is too damn hard. Landowners demand a certain amount of crops from serfs to keep serfs in debt. Agriculture, mining, manufacturing. Cruelty. Tsar Alexander II. Abolished serfdom in 1861. Universal Military service , improved police. Sold Alaska to US.

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  5. 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.

  6. 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.

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  7. a landowner who rents out his estate to peasants so they can work the land. someone who pledges allegiance to a superior feudal power, usually in exchange for land. B. someone who pledges allegiance to a superior feudal power, usually in exchange for land. a knight who leaves his hometown to fight for the preservation of Christianity.

  8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › PaintingPainting - Wikipedia

    Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" [1] or "support"). [2] . The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, may be used.

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