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Economic Takeoff and Social Change in the Countryside, c. 1000-1300 - Rural Society

4 important questions on Economic Takeoff and Social Change in the Countryside, c. 1000-1300 - Rural Society

Around which three institutions were rural communities build

1. Village (community of peasants)
2. Manor (joined landowner and tenants)
3. Parish (priest and parishioners)

What was fundamental to the rural economy of northern Europe

Open fields

Name 4 ways an owner of a manor profited

1. Produced harvested from the demesne land that were cultivated directly for the owner's use. Demesne was cultivated by slaves, serfs and wage labourers
2. Profit through the rents paid by tenants, sometimes in the form of labor rent
3. Charging fees for the use of something
4. When jurisdiction was done, a fee was paid to the manor