Dark ages bondage

Description:In England, at the time of the Domesday Survey, this would have comprised between about 1 and 5 acres 0. Wherever English people settled in the modern era, they took their common law with them and thus established feudal principles all over the world. As slavery gradually disappeared and the legal status of servi became nearly identical to that of the coloni, the term changed meaning into the modern concept of "serf". This arrangement provided most of the agricultural labour throughout the Middle Ages. They depend on their chief for their war-horse, and their weapons; they consider their [minimum] pay to be the feasts [which he provides], but the real wealth [which attracts them] comes from war and plunder. The opportunism that defines him is commended, not surprisingly, by Shakespeare, who is supreme opportunistic: The printing press was not a new invention - it had been around for centuries - but it had limitations.

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