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Tenant Farmers
In a real sense, they were still something of indentured servants. The government purchased land from the owners to give to the newly freed serfs in the form of a collective group. The collective was required to repay the money the government had paid to the landowners over a 49 year period. The individual could not own their own portion of the collective land until they had paid their full share. They were not tied to the land legally any longer; however they lost their ability to own the land if they did not repay their share of the amount owed.
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How did medieval serfs get training?
Most serfs were raised by serf parents who trained them to do the jobs they did. There were possibilities for very bright children to be trained in monasteries.
Where did serfs live in the Middle Ages?
Most serfs lived on manors. These were farming estates that belonged to lords, and whose residents were mostly serfs. The serfs typically lived in a village or hamlet on the manor, in cottages. Some serfs were not agricultural and worked as laborers. They typically lived in cottages in villages or boarding houses in towns.
The majority of people during the Middle Ages were?
90% of the population were serfs. They grew the crops, fought the nobility's wars, died by the thousands in war, disease, and accidents.
Who are Peasants or serfs who worked the land?
A serf was a peasant, but not all peasants were serfs.A peasant is usually a farmer. A peasant could be free or not, and though most were doubtless poor, we find references to well-to-do or prosperous peasants. Serfs are peasants legally bound to a lord's land, and were not allowed to move away. Serfs usually had to provide labor in exchange for a place to live and work.
How were the lives of serfs and lords different?
serfs coulndn't be sold or bought. they were higher then slaves in position ----- Serfdom and slavery were two entirely different things. A slave had very few rights, or possibly none. The slave could be bought or sold, and in most systems could be abused in any way the owner saw fit. For example, slaves were often made to row galleys in wars against their own people. A serf did not have the right to move off the manor, but was otherwise mostly free. The serf had to pay rent in some form, depending on custom, which might have meant six days' work each month, a portion of the harvest, or an amount of money equal to the value of a portion of the harvest. But the serf had a right to a place to live, fields to farm, and protection in war or famine. Serfdom was a system in which the serf and the lord had obligations to each other, and what the serf got was not inconsiderable. The Church repeatedly condemned slavery or practices connected to slavery in the Middle Ages, and the result was that the Norman Kings of England banned the practice altogether with laws in 1066 and 1102. Serfdom, however, continued in most of Western Europe until the time of the Black Death in the 1350s, and was never a condemned practice.
