Manorial System

Timeline

1. c. 850Manors of the Carolingian Empire · FranceDuring the Carolingian period, large estates and systems of dependent peasants gradually took shape, and the manor as a self-sufficient economic unit began to spread.
2. c. 1026Rural manors of England · EnglandIn the early eleventh century, Western European manors generally practiced the holdings system and labor services, with manor courts having jurisdiction over serf status and local public affairs.
3. c. 1350Manors of the English Midlands · EnglandAfter the Black Death of the fourteenth century, labor scarcity drove cash rents to replace labor services; the economic bonds of the manorial system gradually loosened and transitioned toward tenancy relations.