SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -Four main reasons have been advanced to explain the decline of serfdom during the later Middle Ages: manumission; economic pressures; peasant resistance; and migration.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 332 Constantine I established serfdom legally by requiring tenant farmers to pay labour services to their lords. As serfs, they could not marry, change occupations, or move without the permission of their lords, to whom they were required to give a major portion of their harvest.