Manorialism
Etymology
From "manor," via Old French "manoir" from Latin "manere" (to remain, dwell) — the lord’s dwelling that anchored the estate. Historians coined the "-ism" to name the whole arrangement of obligations that bound peasant to land and lord.
noun · /muh-NOR-ee-uh-liz-um/
The medieval economic system organizing rural life around a lord’s estate worked by dependent peasants.
What it names
A handle for the local economic engine of the Middle Ages — self-sufficient estates where labor was owed in exchange for land and protection.
Example
Under manorialism, a serf might owe three days’ labor a week on the lord’s fields.
Related idea
Manorialism is the economic system of estate and labor; feudalism is the political one — the web of loyalty and military service among lords and vassals above it.