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Under this system, peasants lived on a manor presided over by a lord or a bishop of the church. Peasants paid rent or labor services to the lord in exchange for their right to cultivate the land. Fallowed land, pastures, forests, and wasteland were held in common. The open field system required cooperation among the peasants of the manor. It was gradually replaced by individual ownership and management of land.
Also, there was a very important division of the nobility into those who were peers, and those who were commoners. People who held inherited titles of nobility were peers, in the Middle Ages, but knights were not peers, and so were technically commoners, even though they were nobles.