Практикум по английскому языку (по истории Англии Средних веков). Пилипенко В.А - 25 стр.

 the manor revolved. Their services were regularized and
 most often increased after the conquest. Like the slaves,
 the freemen of Domesday were a declining class. Even
 in 1086 many who were free before the Conquest had
 come to be considered unfree as the result of the
 change in ownership of the land. After the Domesday
 period the free disappeared rapidly. The Normans            èñ÷åçëè
 introduced into England a body of written and rigid
 feudal law which tended to force all cultivators into the
 one group, that of serfs with no legal rights against the
 lord of the manor. For the population that time was one     íàñåëåíèå
 of the increasing burdens and general misery. Every
 trick of the lawyers was used to add to these burdens,      äîáàâëÿëè
 and besides his heavy labour services the villein had all
 sorts of disabilities.




                     ASSIGNMENT TO TEXT VI

I. Check the meaning of the terms in your dictionary and learn them
by heart:
      survey, distribution of wealth, revenue, holders of land, vanishing
(declining) class, shepherds, borders, cotters, ploughman, open-field
system, common-field system, tend, slaves, tradesman.

II. Answer the questions to the text:
     1. What was done 20 years later after the Conquest?
     2. What were the two objects of Survey?
     3. What was the main unit of agricultural structure?
     4. Who was the holder of the manor?
     5. What was the structure of society at this period?

III. Translate the sentences from Russian into English:
    1. Çåìëÿ áûëà êîíôèñêîâàíà è ïåðåäàíà íîðìàííñêèì áàðîíàì.
    2. Â Áðèòàíèè áûë óñòàíîâëåí ôåîäàëèçì.
    3. Ãëàâíàÿ ÷åðòà ôåîäàëèçìà — äåëåãèðîâàíèå âëàñòè.
    4. Âëàñòü áàçèðîâàëàñü íà âëàäåíèè çåìëåé.
    5. Äðóæèííèêàì ãàðàíòèðîâàëàñü çåìëÿ çà âîåííóþ ñëóæáó
ëèáî çà êàêèå-òî äðóãèå óñëóãè.


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