mansus

...The basis of this was the improvement of the status of slaves and non-free people, and a tendency emerged to secure land holdings, including a house, a plot of land, a certain area of ​​cultivated land, and a certain amount of usufruct rights to forests and wasteland, as a unit necessary for the life of a family. This was the mansus that arose in the 7th century in the royal estates of the Paris region, and spread as the huffe in Germanic-speaking areas. At the same time, under powerful lords such as the king, the church, and high-ranking nobles, there was a noticeable movement to increase the cultivated land of small estates by reclamation (development), as well as to expand the size of their estates by purchasing land or accepting donations. At the same time, this was also a process in which independent peasants were brought under the control of the feudal lordship and gradually became peasants who held manses or huffes. ...

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…その根幹をなすのは，奴隷的非自由人の地位の向上であり，家，屋敷地，一定面積の耕地，森林･荒蕪地への一定の用益権を含んだ保有地が，1家族の生活に必要な単位として確保される傾向が現れてくる。これが7世紀にパリ地方の王領地で生まれたマンスmansusで，ゲルマン語圏ではフーフェとして広がっていく。同時に，国王，教会，高級貴族などの有力領主のもとでは，開墾(開拓)によって従来の小所領の耕地を増加させるとともに，土地購買や寄進受納によって，所領規模を拡大する動きが目だったが，それは同時に，独立農民が，領主制の支配下に引き入れられ，しだいにマンス＝フーフェ保有農民となっていく過程でもあった。…

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