manorial system

American  

noun

1. manorialism.

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Etymology

Origin of manorial system

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

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

From Scientific American

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.

From Salon

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

From BBC

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.

From Project Gutenberg

In any case, however, the instances which we have been discussing63 afford good illustrations of the fact, that villainage by no means flows from the simple source of personal subjection; it is largely influenced by the Christian organisation of the family and by the feudal mixture of rights of property and sovereignty embodied in the manorial system.

From Project Gutenberg