Description
Book SynopsisThis book examines one hundred years of historical debate on the English peasantry in the later Middle Ages, exploring the influences and changes to peasantry society, economy and culture.
Trade Review‘Practitioners of peasant history will benefit from the guides to bibliography and analysis of past ideas and present preoccupations, while newcomers are given a useful guide to the state of the subject. Those familiar with the peasant world will find well-known subjects presented from a new perspective.’
Christopher Dyer, University of Leicester, Agricultural History
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Early contributions
Part I: Themes
2. Population, resources and the medieval English peasantry
3. Lords and peasants
4. Peasants and markets
Part II: Debates
5. Demography and the medieval peasantry
6. Family, household and gender
7. The village community and the nature of peasant society in medieval England
8. Peasant culture
Conclusion
Index
