Feudalism
- From this hierarchy, the group of people who suffered most were the serfs, who had to serve their lord like slaves.
- Since this was the age of religious faith, they believed that if man’s life was hard it was because he was journeying through a vale of tears to a better life after death.
- This class-structure was then accepted even by the serfs because medieval man believed that full equality could not exist on earth.
- In this mortal life, each man assumed the place in society for which God had destined him.