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How did manorialism affect life in Europe?

Manorialism centered around the manor--the farm on a fief

What was a fief?

Manor

Mutually beneficial system

Farmed the land

New, heavier plow

Three-field system

Peasants

Provided other types of labor, as needed

Provided protection

Paid goods to the lord

Lords

Provided land to farm

Which group seemed to have the better deal--peasants or lords?

Lesson 5: Manorialism

Manorialism (economic system centering around agricultural production)

Feudalism was the political system; manorialism was the economic system

What is the difference?

Unit 4: Feudalism

What would you need to survive on a manor?

Manors included sheep--provided both wool and food

Trade almost impossible

Why?

Everything needed had to come from the manor

On the manor

Blacksmiths--made all tools

Everyone else--serfs (people bound to the manor; unable to leave without permission)

Shoemakers

Would this make serfs slaves? Why or why not?

Constant danger of famine, disease, war, poverty

Carpenters--built houses and furniture

Miller--ground grain into flour

Couldn't be bought or sold apart from the land they lived on--but could be transferred from one lord to another

Looked forward to better life in heaven

How does this compare with American slavery?

How does this compare with Buddhists and Hindus?

Peasant life--nasty, brutish, short

Religious dramas

Singing

Archery

Relaxation

Saw lives as God's will

Dancing

Wrestling

Peasants had little use for feudalism

Honored the king as God's representative on earth

Obeyed the lords' rules, but the arguments of the lords had little impact on them

Spent their entire lives working the land

Serf and lord bound to each other by the land

Does this seem like a good system?

Made manorialism work

Peasants and Lords

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