What were serfs in the Middle Ages?

Answer 1

a serf is a person who must stay to the land and owned by the feudal landlord

and is a part that keeps the feudalism system balanced because they do most of the work. A serf had to pay to the lord money when he's almost dead, a dead person makes the family of serfs pay even more. He also had to fight for his/her lord... >(

Answer 2

Serfs are basically peasents who own land and serve their lord back in the middle ages.

Answer 3

A peasant, non-land owner, usually a slave. Under the feudal system, serfs usually worked the lords land. Serfs were the bottom class, the proletariats.

Answer 4

Serfs were basically servants, the lowest on the social pyramid, that are legally tied to the land and take care of everything around the land and house.

Answer 5

in the middle ages there were serfs and they were at the bottom of the rank with the peasents.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

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