HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Subsistence Agriculture, Barter, Cashless Society
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3 field allows animals to graze on one of the three. Required surplus wealth for: metal an animal horse or ox. Wide variety of crops but little mixed agri. Grain based diets: fatigue, disease, early death rate. Meat: peasants not allowed to hunt. Growth of towns, communal gardens etc (cid:1) farms. Manors or villas large estates self sufficient. Produces enough wealth: feed serfs, feed knight and priest. Built around fortified house fields extend out. All that mattered were customs of manor completely local successful b/c: money ceased to operate as currency, no money/metal to be minted, cashless society (cid:1) cashless society. Narrow strips scattered around manor distributed among families communal. Extraordinary well working system sense of community conservative. Bound to land by circumstance and design. Serfdom inescapable obligations: pay to landlord etc rights and protections, relationship of serfs and knight. Blacksmith surplus to allow blacksmith miller etc: and parish church, priest, came from peasent background, priest duties marry baptize etc.
