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Bookmark or Share- Manor Definition, Significance in the Medieval Period - ThoughtCoA manor was usually comprised of tracts of agricultural land, a village whose inhabitants worked that land, and a manor house where the lord who owned or controlled the estate lived. Manors might also have had woods, orchards, gardens, and lakes or ponds where fish could be found.
- Manorialism - World History EncyclopediaManors or large country houses (called villae or curtes in medieval continental Europe), have been built since villages started to be formed in the Neolithic period.
- Manorialism - WikipediaManorialism, also known as seigneurialism, the manor system or manorial system, [1][2] was the method of land ownership (or "tenure") in parts of Europe, notably France and later England, during the Middle Ages. [3] Its defining features included a large, sometimes fortified manor house in which the lord of the manor and his dependants lived ...
- Manor house - WikipediaA manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were usually held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals with manorial tenants and great banquets.
- Manor Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webstermanor. noun. man· or ˈma-nər. Synonyms of manor. 1. a. : the house or hall of an estate : mansion. b. : a landed estate. 2. a. : a unit of English rural territorial organization. especially : such a unit in the Middle Ages consisting of an estate under a lord enjoying a variety of rights over land and tenants including the right to hold court. b.
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