ISBN:
9781526148209
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 280 Seiten)
Edition:
1. published 2016
Series Statement:
Manchester medieval studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Schofield, Phillipp R., 1964 - Peasants and historians
DDC:
305.56330942
Keywords:
Peasants History
;
To 1500
;
England
;
England Social conditions
;
1066-1485
;
England
;
Bauer
;
Geschichte 1066-1485
Abstract:
The study of the medieval English peasantry began in the nineteenth century as an adjunct to the study of other themes. Medievalists have tended to assume that modern working definitions of peasant, as proposed by Thorner et al., are sufficiently accommodating as to make room for a medieval English peasantry and conceive of a peasant society operating in medieval England. The book describes the ways in which historians have discussed change within the village community, notably in the pre- and post-Black Death village communities. It examines the ways in which debates or particular avenues of research have emerged from three main strands of research: population movement and its determining; the demands and constraints of the seigneurial economy and of resistance to the same; and the development of commerce and the market. The book analyzes the peasant family and household in demographic terms and by looking at household formation, age at marriage and the size and structure of the peasant household, as well as the evolution of the peasant household in the high and late middle ages. It suggests that the study of the medieval peasantry is not a plaything of historical fashion, subject only to the whims and musings of historians the views of whom are rooted only in the present; it reflects a nuancing and refining of questions that will lead to a fuller understanding of a topic and period of great and enduring interest.
DOI:
10.7765/9781526148209
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