WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Manor System refers to a system of agricultural estates in the Middle Ages, owned by a Lord and run by serfs or peasants. The Lords provided safety and protection from outside threats and the serfs or peasants provided labor to run the manor.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the Middle Ages, land within a lord’s manor provided sustenance and survival, and being a villein guaranteed access to land and kept crops secure from theft by marauding robbers. Landlords, even where legally entitled to do so, rarely evicted villeins, because of the value of their labour.

Detailed explanation-3: -Feudal lords hired serfs to farm and take care of the land owned by the nobility. Noble lords could pay serfs lower wages and take ownership of their labor. Serfs in the Middle Ages were typically the poorest class in the feudal system. They were considered peasants, but were the poorest of the peasant class.

Detailed explanation-4: -Serfs usually paid their lord by giving food and working without pay. Usually, serfs spent five or six days a week working for their lord. On these days, the lord would give his serfs very good food. However, serfs had to do the lord’s work before they could do their own work.

Detailed explanation-5: -Although serfs could technically own property, what were some restrictions on this rule? Tenant farmers-that is, people who didn’t own the land they worked-owed some kind of payment to their landlords. This could be a portion of the harvest, days of labor in the lord’s own fields-called the demesne-or money.