D. Military service, often around 40 days per year
14.
Beyond military service, vassals often owed their lords additional feudal obligations, including financial payments known as 'aids', typically required on occasions such as:
A.
The lord's eldest son being knighted or the lord's eldest daughter's marriage
B.
Only during a religious festival, with no other trigger
C.
Only upon the vassal's own death, with no other trigger
D.
Only during a foreign invasion, with no other trigger
A. The lord's eldest son being knighted or the lord's eldest daughter's marriage
15.
The economic system that organised medieval rural life around large agricultural estates, closely intertwined with the feudal social/political structure, is known as:
A.
Mercantilism (a later economic theory, distinct from this medieval agricultural system)
B.
Manorialism
C.
Communism (a modern political-economic ideology, unrelated to this medieval system)
D.
Capitalism (a much later economic system, distinct from this medieval agricultural structure)
A typical medieval manor was divided into land directly farmed for the lord's own benefit, known as the demesne, and land allocated for cultivation by:
A.
Foreign merchants exclusively, unconnected to the local peasantry
B.
Only the lord's immediate family members, with no other cultivators involved
C.
Only travelling knights, with no permanent local agricultural workforce
D.
Peasants (including serfs), who worked both the demesne and their own allotted plots
Serfs, who formed the bulk of the rural population in medieval feudal society, were legally bound to the land on which they worked, meaning they generally:
A.
Could not leave the lord's land without permission
B.
Held complete legal ownership of the land they cultivated
C.
Could freely relocate to any other location without restriction
D.
Were entirely exempt from any labour obligations to the lord
