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Medieval Europe
Manor System Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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manor | the house of a lord; could be a castle or a large house |
demesne | land farmed especially for the lord |
strip farming | farm land divided into long strips for different uses |
peasant | a person working for a lord |
villain | a "free" peasant |
serf | a "bound" peasant |
cotter | farm laborer with no rights to any land |
glebe | land farmed by or for the manor priest or parson(also called parson's close) |
parson | a minister |
close | meadows farmed specifically for the lord |
waste | land used for grazing of animals |
bailiff | overseer of the lord's lands |
arable land | farm(able) land |