What do you think of manorialism?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manorialism

Answer 1

Sounds like parts of America.Manorialism

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This article is about the medieval system. "Manors" redirects here.

For the 17th century system in Canada, see Seigneurial system of New France.

For the railway station in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, see Manors railway station.



Generic plan of a medieval manor; open-field strip farming, some enclosures, triennial crop rotation, demesne and manse, common woodland, pasturage and meadowManorialism or Seigneurialism was the organizing principle of rural economy and society widely practiced in medieval western and parts of central Europe. Manorialism was characterised by the vesting of legal and economic power in a lord supported economically from his own direct landholding and from the obligatory contributions of a legally subject part of the peasant population under his jurisdiction. These obligations could be payable in labor (the French term corvée is conventionally applied), produce ("in kind") or, rarely, money. In the Eastern parts of Prussia, the Rittergut manors of Junkers remained until World War II.