Peasant and Community in Medieval England, 1200-1500

✍ Scribed by Phillipp R. Schofield

• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 288
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In recent years, work on the medieval English peasant has tended to stress the degree of interaction between the village and the world beyond its bounds. This book not only provides an overview of this research, but also develops this approach. Phillipp R. Schofield describes the traditional world of the peasant - with attention given to such issues as relations between lord and tenant, and the nature of the peasant family - and places the peasantry of the late middle ages within the wider political, legal, ecclesiastical, and commercial world of the medieval community.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 7
1 Introduction: Peasant and Community......Page 10
Part I: Land......Page 18
2 Land: Tenure, Landholding and Rent......Page 20
3 Determinants of Peasant Landholding......Page 43
4 The Transfer of Peasant Land......Page 61
Part II: Family......Page 86
5 Family, Household and Kin......Page 88
6 Peasant Marriage and Household Formation: Issues and Influences......Page 99
Part III: Worlds Beyond: Market, Crown and Church......Page 138
7 Peasants and the Market......Page 140
8 Peasants and Politics......Page 166
9 Peasants and Religion......Page 195
10 Conclusion......Page 222
Notes......Page 226
Further Reading......Page 266
B......Page 276
C......Page 277
E......Page 278
H......Page 279
K......Page 280
L......Page 281
M......Page 282
P......Page 283
R......Page 284
S......Page 285
U......Page 286
W......Page 287
Y......Page 288