serfs
Medieval tied workers
Serfs were peasants in medieval Europe bound to the land they worked, occupying a status between slave and free.
They couldn't leave without their lord's permission and owed labor or a share of crops in exchange for protection and the right to farm.
The serfs worked the manor's fields from dawn to dusk.
The term now describes anyone in a condition of servitude or exploitation: We're just serfs to the algorithm.
Secured or destined
- enslavedMade someone's property
- oppressedTreated with cruel control
- chattelMovable personal property
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
liberation · abolition · freedoms · restrictions · tied · inherited · property · ownership
Low-ranking agricultural workers
- lordsMen of high rank
- manorLanded aristocratic residence
- vassalsFeudal subordinates owing service
- fiefdomFeudal territory under lord
landowners · nobility · tenure · demesne · villeins · homage · allegiance · medieval
Involuntary subjugation to another
- toilStrenuous, prolonged effort
- fieldsExpanses for cultivation
- harvestGathering mature crops
- plowingTurning earth for crops
obligations · agricultural · farmwork · crops · manual · unpaid · compulsory · backbreaking
bound
Secured or destined
emancipation · liberation · abolition · freedoms · restrictions · tied · inherited · property · ownership · status
peasants
Low-ranking agricultural workers
fiefdom · landowners · nobility · tenure · demesne · villeins · homage · allegiance · medieval · estates
bondage
Involuntary subjugation to another
plowing · obligations · agricultural · farmwork · crops · manual · unpaid · compulsory · backbreaking · cultivation
Russia
Eurasian federation, largest country
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- 1861Civil War's start
- TsarRussian imperial title
kulaks · boyars · European · medieval · feudal · Prussia · Austria · reform · abolition · peasant
- Norman EraNormans, William the Conqueror, Norman conquest, Domesday Book, Battle of Hastings
- class revoltrevolutionary, revolt, uprising, rebel, insurgent
- medieval studiesmedieval studies, trivium, Middle English, medieval universities, Anglo-Saxon
- sosloviyapeasants, gentry, boyars, Cossacks
- medievalknights, castles, cathedral, kings, queens
- Medieval Eraknights, Middle Ages, castles, feudal lords, medieval period
serfslords
Men of high rank
nobles · aristocrats · feudal lords · landed gentry · nobility
- room serviceHotel meal delivery
- customer serviceAssistance for buyers
- out of serviceNot currently functioning
- lip serviceInsincere expression of agreement
- community serviceUnpaid labor benefiting society
- first come, first servedEarliest arrivals get precedence
serve, service, serving, servant, served, server, services, servitude, serf