middle ages
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The system has its origins in the Middle Ages, when rich landowners granted tenants the right to work an area of land.
From BBC
The items reportedly also include documents from the Teutonic Order -- a Catholic brotherhood of crusading knights active in the Middle Ages.
From Barron's
"Pre-Christian Scandinavian society is credited, for example, with a special warrior culture, an exceptionally good position for women compared to the Middle Ages, and freedom from religious constraints."
From Science Daily
The form was popular in the Middle Ages.
In the Middle Ages, European farmers noticed the critters were devouring pests, saving their crops in the process.
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