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During the Middle Ages, feudalism was the main political system. The landowner, or lord, owned land called a fief and sold it to someone called a vassal. Some peasants, but not slaves because they were not sold or owned, called serfs lived in manors. Instead of paying with money, they worked on the manor, usually in the fields, in exchange for security and protection.
Click on the links to the left to read and see more about the particular part of the manor showed in the diagram. For more information on manors, see http://loki.stockton.edu/~ken/wharram/wharram.htm which has a lot of information about housing and villages.
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