WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Manorialism can best be described as
A
the land given to monasteries by different governments as a show of loyalty to the Church.
B
the political relationships between the king or queen, the nobility, and the peasants.
C
the process of how a nobleman’s son in the Middle Ages could become a knight.
D
the economic ties between the nobles and the peasants who worked on their lands.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Manorialism was the organization of a rural economy and society. The Lord of the Manor operated the system of manorialism which gave him economic and legal power over his tenants. The lord’s land was called his “demesne, ‘’ or domain. The rest of manor land was allotted to the peasants, who were his tenants.

Detailed explanation-2: -The bond between nobility and peasants was predominantly through economic stability. The nobility, whose business it was to fight and rule over peasants, depended on the rents paid to them from their peasants in order to sustain their way of life.

Detailed explanation-3: -Manorial system or seignorial system, was the economic and social system of medieval Europe under which peasants’ land tenure and production were regulated, and local justice and taxation were administered. Feudalism and manorialism were the predominant landholding systems in most parts of medieval Europe.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: The economic system of manorialism impacted the nobles by providing them with cheap labor to work the land. The basic manorial relationship was between a noble and a serf.

Detailed explanation-5: -Manorialism was an economic structure, which described how pieces of land were managed. It primarily concerned the common people of the time, the peasants, as they were the ones providing the labor on the land. Feudalism was a social structure rooted in an exchange of land for military service.

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