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See all on Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SerfdomSerfdom 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, which developed during the Late Antiquity and Early
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See moreSocial institutions similar to serfdom were known in ancient times. The status of the helots in the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta resembled that of the medieval serfs. By the 3rd century AD, the Roman Empire faced
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See moreSerfs had a specific place in feudal society, as did barons and knights: in return for protection, a serf would reside upon and work a parcel of land within the manor of his lord. Thus, the manorial system exhibited a degree of reciprocity.
One rationale held that...
See more• Backman, Clifford R. The Worlds of Medieval Europe Oxford University Press, 2003.
• Blum, Jerome. The End of the Old Order in Rural Europe (Princeton UP, 1978)
• Coulborn, Rushton, ed. Feudalism in History. Princeton University Press, 1956....
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The word serf originated from the Middle French serf and was derived from the Latin servus ("slave"). In Late Antiquity and most of the Middle Ages, what
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See more• Serfdom, Encyclopædia Britannica (on-line edition).
• The Hull Project, Hull University
• Vinogradoff, Paul (1911). "Serfdom" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.).
• Peasantry (social class), Encyclopædia Britannica....
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Like slavery, serfdom has a long history that dates to ancient times.
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- https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/SerfdomSee more on simple.wikipedia.orgDuring the Middle Ages in Europe, monarchs, the Catholic Church, and the nobility owned all land. Serfs did not own land. Instead, they did manual laborfor landowners in exchange for a place to live and work. Most serfs were farmers, but some were craftsmen - like the village blacksmith, miller or innkeeper.
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Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom. Proclamation of the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies, 27 April 1848, 1849, by François Auguste Biard, Palace of Versailles. The …
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The Serfdom Patent of 1 November 1781 aimed to abolish aspects of the traditional serfdom (German: Leibeigenschaft) system of the Habsburg monarchy through the establishment of …
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serfdom, In medieval Europe, condition of a tenant farmer who was bound to a hereditary plot of land and to the will of his landlord. Serfs differed from slaves in that slaves could be bought …
