manorial system

noun

1. manorialism.

Word History and Origins

Origin of manorial system¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

The breakdown of this “manorial” system left many of those women dependent on charity.

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But by and large, Medieval Europe operated on a feudal or manorial system, in which most of the rural population was essentially servile, owing rent and/or services to aristocratic landowners in exchange for the use of their land.

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The mouldboard plough helped usher in the manorial system in Northern Europe.

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Still even after conquest and legal theory had been over the ground, the compact self-government of the township is easily discernible under the crust of the manorial system, and the condition of medieval villains presents many traces of original freedom.

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It presents, as it were, an earlier and less perfect crystallisation of society on a feudal basis than the manorial system of Common Law.

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