Practice question · Multiple choice
The seigneurie extracted wealth through judicial fines and banalités alongside agricultural rents. What does this reveal about economic power on the medieval manor?
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- Who controlled the processing facilities and local courts, and on what terms?
- Did tenants have the freedom to take their grain or legal disputes elsewhere?
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A. It rested on coercing peasant use of private monopolies
Why
Seigniorial authority combined landholding with compulsory jurisdiction and monopolies (such as mills or ovens), demonstrating that agrarian extraction was inherently extra-economic and enforced rather than commercially negotiated.
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