HIS109Y1 Lecture 4: Lecture #4 - The Manorial Economy, September 23
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Lecture #4: the manorial economy: economic foundations of feudalism. The manorial economy and feudalism developed together and t each other perfectly. The early middle ages (7th until the 10 c) were continuously chaos, the population of. Europe declined dramatically because of the breakdown of the roman empirical system which meant that no one was maintaining the roads, the harbour, there was a lack of food and famine which caused plagues. The plagues were terrible in the 6th and 7th century and many people died. Lands that were dif cult to cultivate were abandoned, the agriculture was sustained on a primitive level, it was enough to feed a declining population but not enough to increase population. In the 8th and 9th c. , people divided their estate into three, have an active crop on one, fallow on the second, and have the third to be the grazing land.
