... 128-129). When the nobles needed help protecting his fief, he hired a knight for military services, and paid the knight with a smaller estate called a manor (Hartman 27). This gradual development of a system of land for military service was, as Hartman says, "useful in a time of disorder and danger and ... in fighting, feasting, jousting, and in other ways considered fitting the life of a gentleman" (87). On the manors, the peasants were forced to farm the miles of fields that surrounded the luxurious castles of the rich-blooded (Hartman 87). The peasants received only a small amount of...

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... land to peasants who cultivated the land for them. Some peasants, called serfs, were bound to the land they worked. They could not leave the land, and they had to farm their lord's fields in exchange for a small plot of land of their own. In economic and legal terms, the feudal system rested in manorialism-a relationship of dominance and subordination between ... unsettling force in the system. The rise of powerful monarchs in France, Spain, and England helped to break down the localized system. An increase in communication broke down the isolated manor, supported the rise of towns and ...

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... cares for him and heals his flogging wounds. Later she reunites Candide and Cunegonde at a house with a moat or canal around it. He learns of the war reaching the baron's manor and of the hardships of Cunegonde. Don Issachar, and the Inquisitor were introduced in her telling of hardships and shortly after appeared and both were killed by Candide. They fled ... of Cunegonde and the old woman occurs and Candide knew of Cunegonde's loss of beauty. Candide had promised to marry Cunegonde and so he did and remained in Turkey with a farm and his companions. Candide then realized all his hards...

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