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they had pesants and serfs do the work for them
The ancient Spartans used serfs that they called 'helots' to do the work and keep their economy running.
Serfs just what you asked in your question. Sometimes they were referred to as villain.
alot harder then us
they were forced to work without pay
For military protection
serfs had to labour on the lord's domain for two or three days a week; they tended to crops as well as animals.
The serfs worked for the owner of the land they farmed and lived on. This could be a member of the nobility, a lesser member of the gentry, the king himself, or even some Church organization. Serfs were organized by a person called a reeve, who was himself a serf, appointed by the lord or elected by the body of the serfs on a manor.
No they were slaves and had to live/work where they were told.
In the medieval social and political system of feudalism, boon work was the extra work required of serfs by their lords at harvest time. Serfs typically despised boon work, as it took them away from their own fields at a critical time of the growing season.
peasant and serfs were paid to work with the lords mannor
AnswerThe nobility. They were slaves. AnswerThe serfs were not slaves. They were not free, as they were bound to the land they lived on, but they could not be bought or sold, and they could not be taken off the land by the lord any more than they could leave it without his permission. Doubtless they sometimes did work as servants, but usually they were agricultural, and they were much more likely to take work doing simple labor than as servants. There were reeves, who organized and supervised the serfs on manors, and who acted as representatives for the lords to the serfs and for the serfs to the lords. The reeves, however, were also serfs, and were often elected by the serfs annually. There are links below.