1) Bondage 2) Feudal slavery 3) Feudal system 4) Serfhood 5) Slavery 6) State of oppression 7) The state of a serf 8) Thraldom 9) Thrall 10) Thralldom 11) Vassalage 1) Bondage 2) Serfhood 3) Subjection 4) Vassalage 
Serfdom is the status of peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism. It was a condition of bondage which developed primarily during the High Middle Ages in Europe and lasted in some countries until the mid-19th century. Serfs who occupied a plot of land were required to work for the Lord of the Manor who owned that land, and in...
• (n.) The state or condition of a serf.
condition in medieval Europe in which a tenant farmer was bound to a hereditary plot of land and to the will of his landlord. The vast majority of ... [45 related articles]
[n] - the state of a serf
serfhood noun the state of a serf
The legal and economic status of peasants under feudalism. Serfs could not be sold like slaves, but they were not free to leave their master's estate without his permission. They had to work the lord's land without pay for a number of days every week and pay a percentage of their produce to the lord every year. They also served as soldiers ...