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P. L. Jacob. Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period
Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period
Table of Contents
Table of Illustrations
I. Chromolithographs
II. Engravings
Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages, and During the Renaissance Period
Condition of Persons and Lands
Privileges and Rights. Feudal and Municipal
Private Life in the Castles, the Towns, and the Rural Districts
Food and Cookery
Aliments
The Kitchen
Repasts and Feasts
Hunting
Games and Pastimes
Commerce
Guilds and Trade Corporations
Taxes, Money, and Finance
Law and the Administration of Justice
Secret Tribunals
Punishments
Jews
Gipsies, Tramps, Beggars, and Cours des Miracles
Ceremonials
Costumes
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P. L. Jacob
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The mortmains were generally subject to the greater share of feudal obligations formerly imposed on serfs; these were particularly to work for a certain time for their lord without receiving any wages, or else to pay him the tax when it was due, on certain definite occasions, as for example, when he married, when he gave a dower to his daughter, when he was taken prisoner of war, when he went to the Holy Land, &c., &c. What particularly characterized the condition of mortmains was, that the lords had the right to take all their goods when they died without issue, or when the children held a separate household; and that they could not dispose of anything they possessed, either by will or gift, beyond a certain sum.
The noble who franchised mortmains, imposed on them in almost all cases very heavy conditions, consisting of fees, labours, and fines of all sorts. In fact, a mortmain person, to be free, not only required to be franchised by his own lord, but also by all the nobles on whom he was dependent, as well as by the sovereign. If a noble franchised without the consent of his superiors, he incurred a fine, as it was considered a dismemberment or depreciation of the fief.
