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The obligations vary from landlord to landlord, but usually it meant providing a service, labor, and goods to landlord according to arrangement!. Serfs were required to work on landlords’ fields, taking care of the livestock, and provide helping hands on building projects!. They usually work several days per week on the lords’ domain, while they had to work on their domain as well, which was bestowed to them by the landlord to feed themselves!. Landlord required from serfs to supply them with agricultural goods like honey, grain, eggs, chicken, fruits!.!.; but livestock was usually owned by the lord not the serf!. Serfs were also used as laborers, and they were needed in building castles, fortifications, deforestation, and irrigation projects!. Female serfs were often personal servants of the domain, and provided housekeeping for the landlord's family!. In the time of war, the serf will also serve as a defender of the lord’s domain, usually at the castle where everyone run for a protection!. As the economy of Europe improved in 1000-1350 and monetarization became standard, landlords were satisfied by receiving rent in the terms of silver coinage!. Some countries like Kingdom of Hungary, serfs were treated more like slaves, and females were forced to perform intimate services as well!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Serfdom was the enforced labor of serfs on the fields of landowners, in return for protection and the right to work on their leased fields!. Serfdom involved work not only on fields, but various agriculture-related works, like forestry, mining, transportation (both land and river-based), crafts and even in production!. Manors formed the basic unit of society during this period, and both the lord and his serfs were bound legally, economically, and socially!. Serfs were labourers who were bound to the land; they formed the lowest social class of the feudal society!. Serfs were also defined as people in whose labour landowners held property rights!.


Peasants constitute the bulk of the population!. Peasant societies generally have very well developed social support networks!. Especially in harder climates, members of the community who have a poor harvest or suffer some form of hardship will be taken care of by the rest of the community!. Peasant societies can often have very stratified social hierarchies within them as well!. A rural peasant population differs enormously in its values and economic behavior from urbanites and tends to be more conservative!. Peasants are often very loyal to inherited power structures that define their rights and privileges and protect them from interlopers, despite their low status within those power structures!. A peasant is an agricultural worker who subsists by working a small plot of ground!. There were free and unfree peasants!. Free peasants could leave the manor as they wished!. Unfree peasants had to buy their way out of the manor by paying their lord!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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