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Title: The Manorial System


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The Manorial System
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Feudalism on a Small Scale
  • Knights own the fief or manor
  • Serfs are bound to the land

3
Knights Responsibilities
  • Provide peasants with housing
  • Provide peasants with farmland
  • Protect the manor the peasants

4
Peasant/Serfs Responsibilities
  • Work for the knight or lord a few days a week
  • Give some portion of their food to the manor

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Life on the Manor
  • Insular
  • Grew or caught their own food
  • Made their own clothes
  • Ground grains baked bread at the mill
  • A peasant could live his or her whole life w/out
    leaving the manor

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Taxes
  • Grain ground at the manor mill
  • Anywhere else was a crime
  • On marriage
  • You could only marry with the lords consent

8
Tithe
  • Peasants owed the church a tithe
  • One tenth of their income

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Role of the Church
  • Peasants life is determined by God
  • Faith guarantees their entry into Heaven
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