villeinage
Example Sentences
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Now, if the weaker party remained to brave the attack and was conquered, he was reduced to a state of villeinage or of dependence more or less complete.
From The Communes of Lombardy from the VI. to the X. Century An Investigation of the Causes Which Led to the Development Of Municipal Unity Among the Lombard Communes. by William Klapp Williams
By these provisions both villeinage or land-serfdom and the slavery of debtor classes to capital were to be prevented in the new nation.
From The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by R. Heber Newton
In the seventy years which had intervened since the last peasant rising, villeinage had died naturally away before the progress of social change.
From History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 by John Richard Green
The rebels at first demanded no more than that Richard should declare villeinage abolished, and that all feudal dues and services should be commuted for a rent of fourpence an acre.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
The charter that contains this enactment treats of villeinage also, and orders that whoever has a man for sale within the limits of the viscounty shall fix the price, and shall not change it afterwards.
From Two Summers in Guyenne by Edward Harrison Barker
