How were the lives of serfs and lords different?

Answer 1

serfs coulndn't be sold or bought. they were higher then slaves in position

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Serfdom and slavery were two entirely different things.

A slave had very few rights, or possibly none. The slave could be bought or sold, and in most systems could be abused in any way the owner saw fit. For example, slaves were often made to row galleys in wars against their own people.

A serf did not have the right to move off the manor, but was otherwise mostly free. The serf had to pay rent in some form, depending on custom, which might have meant six days' work each month, a portion of the harvest, or an amount of money equal to the value of a portion of the harvest. But the serf had a right to a place to live, fields to farm, and protection in war or famine. Serfdom was a system in which the serf and the lord had obligations to each other, and what the serf got was not inconsiderable.

The Church repeatedly condemned slavery or practices connected to slavery in the Middle Ages, and the result was that the Norman Kings of England banned the practice altogether with laws in 1066 and 1102. Serfdom, however, continued in most of Western Europe until the time of the Black Death in the 1350s, and was never a condemned practice.

Answer 2

Serfs had the right to a particular strip of land. They did not own it, but the nobles of the manor allowed it if all serfs donated two or three days of work each week to ploughing, planting, weeding, and harvesting the lords demesne (land). They would use the land to plant food for themselves and often placed their homes on a river bank were the fields usually are for water. A serf was considered a part of land and had to obey the owners orders and were not allowed to come and go as they pleased. The boundary of a serf is often about 20 meters out of the fields.

Freeholders, unlike serfs, actually owned their land. They paid taxes but did not have to work on the lords demesne. These free farmers were also allowed to leave the village or farm whenever they pleased.

Answer 3

Serfs were basically classified as lower class people. They were the servents to the lords and other higher archy of the court. Lords were the people beign serviced by the serfs. The Lords were wealthy and of high class and the serfs were poor and of low class.

Answer 4

a serf got payed