| There is little information in Domesday Book on peasant production but a good deal on demesne inputs and output. |
| In Piedmont and Naples the nobles were the principal beneficiaries from the alienations of tax revenues and demesne lands. |
| Bipartite estates were divided between a central demesne and an array of tenant plots. |
| The plantation administrator also hired day laborers at times to work the demesne, the fields directly exploited by the owners. |
| On the manor the peasants worked the lord's demesne in return for protection, housing, and the use of plots of land to cultivate their own crops. |
| The most common way of doing that was to increase compulsory labour services on the demesne land itself. |
