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manumission from
their lords. The
villeinage system largely died out in
England in 1500, with some
forms of
villeinage being in use in
France until 1789...
-
Villeins were
generally able to hold
their own property,
unlike slaves.
Villeinage, as
opposed to
other forms of serfdom, was most
common in Continental...
-
level of free
socage was that of the
villeinage (roture).
Throughout New France,
several thousand estates in
villeinage were developed. Furthermore, these...
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payment of rent.
Copyhold was
directly descended from the
feudal system of
villeinage which involved giving service and
produce to the
local lord in return...
- the
discontented lower orders of
society at that time, who
chafed at
villeinage and the lords'
rights of
unpaid labour, or corvée.
Historian James Crossley...
- by the head; or a kind of poll-money paid by
those who held
lands in
villeinage, or otherwise, to
their lords, in acknowledgement. The word
seems also...
- S. Constitution. The last
known form of
enforced servitude of
adults (
villeinage) had
disappeared in
England by the
beginning of the 17th century. In 1569...
-
these States".
Legal statutes had
never authorized slavery in England.
Villeinage, a form of semi-serfdom, was
legally recognized but long obsolete. In...
- villainess, villainous, villainy, villanelle, villatic, ville, villein,
villeinage †vīllula vīllul-
villus vill-
shaggy hair intervillous, velour, velvet...
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serfs toiling under a
system of
bonded labour that
resembled the
European villeinage. However,
scholars such as
Burton Stein argue that the
agricultural bondage...
