What does manorialism mean?
A system of government and land ownership in which a lord or noble owns the land and the peasants who work it, often with obligations to provide labor or goods in exchange for protection and the right to work the land.
Example
"The historian studied the effects of manorialism on the social structure of medieval Europe."
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