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Definition of Manorialism
1. Noun. A political, economic and social system in medieval and early modern Europe; originally a form of serfdom but later a looser system in which land was administered via the local manor. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Manorialism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manorialism
Literary usage of Manorialism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Latvians: A Short History by Andrejs Plakans (1995)
"When manorialism emerged is a somewhat easier question to answer because it
involves real estate rather than hard-to-interpret personal obligations.19 ..."
2. Records of the Borough of Leicester: Being a Series of Extracts from the by Leicester (England), Mary Bateson, William Henry Stevenson, John Edward Stocks (1899)
"As the features of manorialism are obliterated under economic and legal changes,
this fiscal detachment ... In the West Fields also manorialism was at work. ..."
3. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1913)
"manorialism, which dominated everything in the latter region, did not exist, or
only existed in a most attenuated form, ..."
4. The Growth of the Manor by Sir Paul Vinogradoff (1905)
"... details of the manorial age, and to lay especial stress amongst these latter
on those traits in which the stamp of manorialism is least marked. ..."
5. The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century by Richard Henry Tawney (1912)
"Bu1 from an early date develops on its own lines, and does not go through the
same stages of manorialism and commutation as other counties. ..."
6. William the Conqueror and the Rule of the Normans by Frank Merry Stenton (1908)
"Had Alfred's successors been able to effect the incorporation of the Danelaw with
the kingdom of Wessex, the incipient manorialism of the south might have ..."
7. Township and Borough: Being the Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of by Frederic William Maitland (1898)
"The rapidity with which the strips were passing in the thirteenth century from
owner to owner seems incompatible with any high degree of manorialism. ..."
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