Sentence examples for manorial system from inspiring English sources

Manorialism, also called manorial system, seignorialism, or seignorial system, political, economic, and social system by which the peasants of medieval Europe were rendered dependent on their land and on their lord.

This arrangement developed into the manorial system, which in turn supported the feudal aristocracy of kings, lords, and vassals.

The Normans built substantial fortifications at Cardiff and Cowbridge, and in the Vale of Glamorgan they practiced the manorial system.

Sometimes peasants worked the land as freeholders (as in fact many peasants had always done, even at the very height of the manorial system).

He wrote: "The leaseholders faced the perfect storm of all that is wrong with this outdated feudal and manorial system of property ownership".

The Anglo-Norman manorial system was introduced into Wales after the conquest of 1282, but nucleated villages became significant only in the eastern and southern peripheries of the country, where physical and political conditions favoured their development.

Changes in local government between 1840 and 1888 saw the end of the parochial and manorial systems.

Prior to the 19th century, local government remained largely based on the parochial and manorial systems in use since the Middle Ages.

A crisis in the old manorial organization of agriculture and an expansion of the money economy coincided with the rise of towns as centres of trade and industry.

The village was owned by the Earls Manvers until Gervas Evelyn Pierrepont, 6th Earl Manvers, sold it to the government in 1952 on the condition that the open-field system and manorial court would be maintained.

Across much of England, production was organised around manors, controlled by local lords – including the gentry and the Church – and governed through a system of manorial courts.