Peasant

lived on it, and owned it. A manor was given to a vassal from his lord as incentive for his loyalty. Peasants were his main source of income. They grew food, pay rent, paid, fines and paid fees (Cels, Marc 18). The peasants would pay different fees to their lord. One fee called tallage, this was an annual fee. The peasants would also pay a fee called woodsilver. This was a fee that enabled peasants to be able to take wood out of the manors forest (Cels, Marc 22). The lord and his family lived in…

Taxes were raised to finance the king's wars, villages came under invasion. Land was fought over and peasants were killed. The crusades were a series of many wars where europeans, peasants, knights, and all others went to fight against muslims over the holy land in the middle east. Very few of these campaigns actually succeeded in gaining any land and only the first one succeeded in gaining the…

In Russia, serfdom was a system under which the peasants were theoretically free tenants, but were actually in a state of vassalage to, and dependence on, the landowners. Russian peasants were a completely separate class from the landowners and nobility, many of whom must have considered their underlings less than human. Some people condemn feudalism, stating that it was a corrupt system of labor as it exploited serfs, but without the use of the serfs, the entire economy of Europe would have…

made the French revolution necessary are bad leadership because King Louis XVI made the government sink into debt, unequal taxes because the peasants were taxed with nobility, church, and government taxes, and lastly enlightenment ideas because the bourgeoisie wanted more freedom. In France around the 1700’s the three estates (Clergy, Nobles, Bourgeoisie/Peasants) faced 3 different kinds of oppression, political, economic, and social oppression. The first estate known as the Clergy or the…

system was an arrangement of social relationships between the different classes of citizens, based on the families that they were born in. Depending on that group, one would have different loyal services and obligations to the class above them. The peasants, the Knights, the nobles, and the kings were all part of the feudal pyramid. Each class had different treatments, laws, and daily lives based on the category they were part of. During the Middle Ages, the kings definitely held the…

Peasants were quite poor before the plague since they were not paid as much until the plague happened. Peasants usually got raises since most of them kept dying and it was starting to be really hard to find a peasant that would not die of the plague. This lead more peasants to have more money. A quote from Matteo Villani, a historian from Florence, Italy. The quote is about how the price…

lives, but doesn’t compare to that of a prince or king. Their social class is like a corporate ladder in modern time were those who are higher up would get the most pay and power. Those who were not lucky enough to be born nobles were labeled as a peasant and had to work all their lives just to feed themselves and survive. The thought of changing one’s social class was taboo during this time for anyone. Once you were put in a social class the chances of you going up were slim to none, but there…

Many of the peasants were treated harshly. They were not at all thrilled with the establishment of this new management. In addition to toiling on their lord’s land, they were often times called to labor on the Church’s property for free. Besides how they were treated, they had to get use to the new language spoken (French) as well as the different customs that the Normans brought. Like their predecessors, the peasants were still tied to the land. They essentially had nothing to claim as their…

cooperative system in order to sustain the agrarian lifestyle. Peasants became the targets for change because they were the ones that grew their own resources which were also bought by other Koreans and even the Japanese. As modernity invaded Korea, peasants were unable to survive due to the lack of…

the peasantry, whereas the redistribution of land from rich, semi-feudal landlords to the poor peasants would actualize communist ideals of an utopian society. Yuan-tsung Chen, in her novel The Dragon’s Village, describes the experiences of Guan Ling-ling, a young communist volunteer who encounters the complexities of class relations, land reform, and patriarchy present among the peasantry of a rural peasant village in North China. Using Ling-ling’s various interactions with other volunteers and…