... less powerful ones below him. Because vassals often held fiefs from more than one lord feudal relationships grew very complex. The manor was the heart of a lord's lands. On this land the peasants worked to farm crops. Most peasants who worked the manor were serfs, who were bound to the land. Serfs were not slaves but were not free. They had to ask ... ...

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