» This article is about the medieval system. "Manors" redirects here.:For the 17th century system in Canada, see Seigneurial system of New France. For the railway station in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, see Manors railway station. Manorialism or Seigneurialism was the organizing principle of rural economy and society widely practiced in medieval western and parts of central Europe;was characterised by the vesting of legal and economic power in a lord supported economically from his own direct… (More on Manorialism)