History A-Level
Villeins
What Villeins means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Villeins
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Peasants who held land and owed labour services such as week-work and boon-work, unlike slaves who were property with no land tenure.
Topics that use Villeins
- State, church and society, 1066–1106 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Centralisation of royal government
- Church reform and discipline
- Conflict and compromise in appointments
- Domesday Survey 1086
- Land tenure
- Local office-holding and the enforcement of royal justice
- Manumission
- Norman aristocracy
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