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OpenStudy (fayfaylove):

Which of the following describes the rights and legal standing of a European villein? Choices in comments Fan&Medal!!

OpenStudy (fayfaylove):

A.They could farm a plot of land for a landlord, but they didn't own it. B.They were forced to give up all of their labor, but they received food from the landlord. C.They could buy land from a landlord, but they had to provide the lord with military service. D.They were forced to sell all of their land to the landlord, but their house was provided for them.

OpenStudy (fayfaylove):

A.They could farm a plot of land for a landlord, but they didn't own it. B.They were forced to give up all of their labor, but they received food from the landlord. C.They could buy land from a landlord, but they had to provide the lord with military service. D.They were forced to sell all of their land to the landlord, but their house was provided for them.

OpenStudy (fayfaylove):

Please help?

OpenStudy (fayfaylove):

@gnech

OpenStudy (itsbribro):

i would say A :)

OpenStudy (fayfaylove):

Are you sure? :)

OpenStudy (itsbribro):

A villein was an early form of serf. His relationship to his lord was classically feudal, in that the villein owed the lord labor, which might be rendered on the lord's land, as military service, or possibly as crops from the land he farmed. The villein's relationship to the land was complicated: he did not precisely own it, because he could not sell it, nor leave it; he was BOUND to the land he farmed. But on the other hand, he had a traditional right to it, and the lord was generally constrained not to sell the land without the villein in possession.

OpenStudy (fayfaylove):

thanks @itsbribro

OpenStudy (itsbribro):

you're welcome :)

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