Important Developments in the Humanities During the Early,High and Late Middle Ages

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Men often found themselves unfairly serving more than one master. The general idea was that a man would offer the landlord protection for his right to live on his land. The peasants had little or no chance of owning land. The manorial tradition was between the landowner and those who lived on and worked the land, who were the peasants and serfs...
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In return for the protection of the lord and his army, peasants and serfs gave up all chance of economic betterment and virtually all freedom for the right to run into the castle walls of the lord. Castles are very visible symbols of the need for protection in the Middle Ages; to be able to cower inside these walls and survive war, or attacks by bandits or Vikings, peasants and serfs gave up their wealth and their freedom...
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