No, he was more like “your daughter looks nice, she’s mine now untill i get bored of her. And by the way, you’ll have to take care of the bastard.”
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Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 days agoDo you own the servers for the company you work at?
I am assuming the house you lived on as a serf was yours, and you could do whatever you wanted to it. I don’t think the lord was trotting about town going “Um, regulations say no pets”
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Grimy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Serfdom was two steps away from slavery. You didn’t own the house, you couldn’t sell it or even leave. Your payment for work was a piece of land you could use for subsistence farming. It differs from place to place obviously but it was much worse then “regulations say no pets”.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Well, you would be wrong. The house belonged to the Lord, as did the land, the surrounding lands and so on. The very well could have said “no pets”, if they had cared. They had veto power on marriage, changing labors, and everything.
The Lord owned the serf in the same way that a homeowner owns the sidewalk. They had to provide basic protections or someone higher would eventually maybe get upset. They could do basically whatever they wanted to them, but the serf could only be sold as part of the estate.