Manorial Agreements Research Paper

The life of a peasant in the dark age was miserable. Peasant gave up their freedoms to powerful Lords for protection, but limited their freedoms and doomed them to a life of poverty.

Peasants were so afraid of neighboring lords they voluntarily signed to became a tenant known as Manorial Agreements. As a tenant the life of such peasant belonged to the lord he had signed to. Peasants were not slaves because they were not sold and were entitled to hold property. Women could not make contracts by themselves, but if they were married it depended on their husband and could also inherit tenants.

Peasants under the Manorial Agreements also had to cope Manorial burdens which could be simple or complex. Some of the burdens included serving the