Serfdom In Europe

In accordance to the provided historical context and documented records, it can be seen that serfdom in Europe can be traced back to the eleventh century, which is a revelation in itself as the idea of Serfdom was a popular socio-political movement of the time. Serfdom was a type of Feudalism that spanned throughout most of Europe, in the medieval period in the West until the renaissance, but there was an incline in the practice in Central and Eastern Europe, in a phenomenon known as the later serfdom. In the case of the East, the abolishment of serfdom in the area did not occur until 1861. Unfortunately, by the time it had been abolished countries in the east such as Russia had turned the bond between serf and master in a masked form of Slavery,

The culture was quite simple as it was based around village life, the many seasons within the agricultural year, the folklore of the lands, and the church, which had gained a strong-hold of all the classes of the era. Surprisingly, the church had little impact on the peasant classes as most were considered illiterate, and had little time to delve into the culture outside of their own factual rituals, which were rather fast, but the people of the lower-classes were rather superstitious, which means that the peasant classes were genuinely not very religious. The Serfs, would and could be conscripted and sent off to war in the place of their lords, which was a common accordance in such feudal systems. From the historical analysis provided, it can be seen that male serfs were often conscripted as a form of punishment for “insubordination” as it led to a charge that bettered the standing of the lord and dehumanised the serf. Subsequently, in the agrarian-based serf society, women were the ones at a disadvantage as their lords would use them as a commodity, in such means as reproduction to increase revenue. Consequently, the serf women were treated in a similar means as the Europeans treated the women from African societies (which diminished the concept of human right in favour of slave labour and