serfage
Example Sentences
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Before proceeding to describe the Emancipation, it may be well to explain briefly how the Russian peasants became serfs, and what serfage in Russia really was.
From Russia by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace
We must beware of attributing this doctrine of Neifty to the Norman Conquest, which merely supplied names; in definiteness and cruelty nothing could exceed the practice of serfage under the Saxons.
From The Customs of Old England by F. J. (Frederick John) Snell
We have had to examine its classes or divisions in their relation to freedom, personal slavery, and praedial serfage.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
Let every species of serfage and of intermediary lien between the sovereign and the lowest class of people be abolished.
From The Modern Regime, Volume 1 by John Durand
Would not every dog-brother of them be better at home, working his serfage peaceably for his land?
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
