Examples of 14th-Century Social Hierarchies
The vast economic differences between the wealthy and the poor in the 14th century were often reflected in formal social titles. These stratified relationships included feudal lords and their serfs, royalty and their subjects, owners and the people they enslaved, and merchants in contrast to the sailors who transported their goods.
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