manorialismn.
/məˈnɔːrɪəlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /məˈnɔriəˌlɪzəm/ In medieval Europe: the manorial system of social and economic organization. Also applied to analogous systems in other areas and periods.
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1897 F. W. Maitland Domesday Bk. & Beyond 138 We shall have the utmost difficulty if we would go behind manorialism.
1919 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 5 472 Students of our own middle ages have already devoted some little attention to the parallel feudalism and manorialism in Japan.
1958 Amer. Hist. Rev. 63 822 The German peasantry failed to make an advantageous transition from corporate manorialism to free proprietorship.
1972 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 32 938 The argument of North and Thomas is undermined from the outset by their failure to make an adequate distinction between ‘manorialism’ and ‘feudalism’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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