Manorialism
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Manorialism or Seigneurialism, an essential ingredient of feudal society, was the organizing principle of rural economy that originated in the villa system of the Late Roman Empire, was widely practiced in medieval western and parts of central Europe, and was slowly replaced by the advent of a money-based market economy and new forms of agrarian contract. 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 several ways, in labor (the French term corvée is conventionally applied), in kind, or, on rare occasions, in coin.
See also
Specific:
- Latifundium
- Folwark (Poland/Lithuania)
- Baltic nobility (Estonia/Latvia)
- Heerlijkheid (Dutch manorialism)
- Junker (Prussian manorialism)
- Indian feudalism
- Patroon (17th century New Netherland)
- Seigneurial system of New France in 17th century Canada
- Shōen (Japanese Manorialism)
- Property Law in Colonial New York
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