We continue in Overhistory reviewing the most significant features of the Middle Ages. As we worked in previous articles, within the framework of the Feudal System they give two forms of social relations that are preponderant: the vassalage relations (of which we speak time ago) and the servitude relations that we will explain next.
As in every period of history, within society, forms of economic exploitation are established in which not only natural resources are used (land, animals, etc.) but also human resources: the workers .Well in the framework feudal system characteristic of the Middle Ages in Europe, the Workforce-workers-were achieved thanks to these " Servitude Relations ".Let's see what they consist of.
As explained Let us fit into the previous articles, the power was in the hands of the Feudal Lords who were noblemen who had received-from the king or another more powerful nobleman-a set of lands (called senorio or feudo ) under a vassalage relations .What did the Feudal Lord do with the lands he received? As he exploited them, mainly through agriculture, but it was not he or his family who worked the land.
Who did the work then? The work was done by the peasants who lived within the senorio who were obliged to do so.This was because when the Senor Feudal received the land , also received rights over its inhabitants.It is called, then, " Servitude relationship " to the relationship established between each feudal lord and the peasants (servants ) of their lands.
The servitude relationship implies that the Feudal Lord allows the servant the use of a plot of land within your Senorio to inhabit and work.In addition, the Feudal Lord must provide servant protection.
In exchange for land use and protection, the Servant must give the Feudal Lord a retribution.To this retribution of the flame " tribute "or" income ", and it can be a tribute in kind (that is, with products produced by the servant like, crop, animals, etc.), tribute in money or tribute at work (working in the senor's own lands called "senorial reserve").In addition to the tributes, the servant is obliged to use the mills, bridges and furnaces of the feudal lord , so you must pay a tax to your lord.
sources:
Canal Encuentro
abc.gov.ar
Images:
1 and 2 illustrations in The very rich hours of the Duke of Berry, 1410. In wikipedia.
3.Illustration that graphs how it was a medieval path, in Encuentro.gov.ar
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