![]() ![]() Freemen lied in cottages and received: next to nothing. Serfs lived in villages inside longhouses and recieved: land, animals, protection, communal government, permanent occupation. Were they given extra acres to work for themselves and the demense was a seperate field, or were the neatly divided rows of farmland that show up in the example maps all part of the lord's demense?Ģ.) There were serf and freemen. ![]() I need to string a few loose ends together.ġ.) Medieval open field system: I know serfs were granted a house complete with crofts, and tofts, which held both food and livestock for the serf's family. ![]() Okay, so I'm about as far into medieval village research as Dante Alighieri was in his trip to Hell. ![]()
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