Definitionn. (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord
Last update: October 14, 2015
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The manorial accounts were kept with precision and detail, and we are told that a skilled official could estimate to the utmost farthing the value of the services due from the villein to his lord. [Please select]
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Besides, lad, your English villein differs from your French serf. [Please select]
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It was sometimes said that the noble paid with his blood, the villein with his money. [Please select]
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This was the villein service (_corvée_) which was exacted of the farmers and agricultural laborers. [Please select]
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No amercement to touch the necessary means of subsistence of a free man, the merchandise of a merchant, or the agricultural tools of a villein; earls and barons to be amerced by their equals. [Please select]
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