villeinage

How To Use villeinage In A Sentence

• The villeins had not won their freedom this time but had changed history and themselves forever, and within 50 years villeinage had disappeared from England forever.
• The threat to haul him back to villeinage would be enough to make the lad take to his heels, the faster the better. The Hermit of Eyton Forest
• This article explores the obstacles to such litigation, challenging the claim that servile villeinage acted to restrict villagers' choice of court. Archive 2008-12-01
• In particular, they rejected villeinage - the condition of hereditary unfreedom - which bore down on them in a variety of ways.
• Indeed, over the centuries Catholic kings and popes gradually abolished the institution of slavery replacing ancient slavery with the Feudal serf and then replacing the serf and the unfree villeins, bordars and cottars with a free, land-owning peasantry and villeinage. The State's Obligation to Recognize and Protect the Catholic Church
• As he says, "Bondage to the land was the basis of villeinage in the old regime; bondage to the job will be the basis of villeinage in the new. A REVIEW
• Valiant men, forsooth, shall arise in the beginning of these evil times, but though they shall die as ye shall, yet shall not their deaths be fruitful as yours shall be; because ye, forsooth, are fighting against villeinage which is waning, but they shall fight against usury which is waxing. A Dream of John Ball and a King's Lesson
• Most men of these local villages, tied to the soil by villeinage but also by inclination, and likely to marry within a very few miles 'radius, tended to have a close clan resemblance and a strong clan loyalty. The Holy Thief
• Cruel reaction ensued: Richard and Parliament annulled the charters; terrible repression followed, and a deliberate effort was made to restore villeinage. 1377-89
• Even in villeinage we would have married and been thankful. A Rare Benedictine