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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5628496" data-attributes="member: 463">Reality is surprising.&nbsp; There are lots of English medieval cases (13c+) with serfs suing their lords for alleged failure to meet the lords' legal obligations!&nbsp; And it was nothing to do with &quot;rebellions against the feudal system&quot; - the serfs were asserting their rights under English common Law within the feudal system.&nbsp; The medieval feudal system is a system of mutual obligations, and was seen as such by everyone.&nbsp; &quot;Peasants' revolts&quot; were usually (a) Assertions of breach of duties under the Law, not a revolt against the Law* and (b) were actually revolts by armed yeomen and artisans, not by actual peasants or serfs.*Although Watt Tyler &amp; co did sack the Inns of Court, AIR.Edit: The French Revolution &amp; then Marxism have resulted in a very distorted view of actual medieval history, IMO; projecting 18th &amp; 19th century class conflicts back into the medieval era.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 5628496, member: 463"] Reality is surprising. There are lots of English medieval cases (13c+) with serfs suing their lords for alleged failure to meet the lords' legal obligations! And it was nothing to do with "rebellions against the feudal system" - the serfs were asserting their rights under English common Law [B]within[/B] the feudal system. The medieval feudal system is a system of mutual obligations, and was seen as such by everyone. "Peasants' revolts" were usually (a) Assertions of breach of duties under the Law, not a revolt against the Law* and (b) were actually revolts by armed yeomen and artisans, not by actual peasants or serfs. *Although Watt Tyler & co did sack the Inns of Court, AIR. Edit: The French Revolution & then Marxism have resulted in a very distorted view of actual medieval history, IMO; projecting 18th & 19th century class conflicts back into the medieval era. [/QUOTE]

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