This book gives a picture of the daily and yearly round of the English peasant in the Middle Ages. H. S. Bennett explains the feudal system which linked the poor man to the soil and to the service of his lord and the church in a pattern of customary dues and rights, payments, labours and small privileges. The author gives lively details of the pattern of medieval country life: the influence of the seasons and the state of contemporary knowledge on the work of the fields; the place of religion in everyday life; the workings of feudal justice; popular attitudes to the social structure; the business of getting a living. Since all the inhabitants of England outside the few large towns were essentially countrymen, this is an introduction to life in medieval England as a whole.
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'Its scholarship, which is actually exhaustively patient, interferes not one whit with its open, positively exciting readability ... No student of literature, no lover of medieval past should be without its modest assistance. In itself it has the quiet charm of unpretentious knowledge; as a bridge to an age not easily approached, it is of profound usefulness.' The Saturday Review
'A picture of the peasant's physical and mental environment which is well balanced, full of significant detail, and free from disquieting exaggeration of light and shade ... A work of much learning, well arranged and clearly written, but its distinction lies in its humanity.' Sir Frank Stenton, The Spectator
'This is not just another book on English life in the Middle Ages and the ways of our forefathers ... It is written with such clarity and grace and it reconstructs so vividly and yet with such scholarly attention to the evidence the fortunes of the poor six or seven centuries ago that it should attract the attention of a far wider audience.' New York Herald Tribune
'A picture of the peasant's physical and mental environment which is well balanced, full of significant detail, and free from disquieting exaggeration of light and shade ... A work of much learning, well arranged and clearly written, but its distinction lies in its humanity.' Sir Frank Stenton, The Spectator
'This is not just another book on English life in the Middle Ages and the ways of our forefathers ... It is written with such clarity and grace and it reconstructs so vividly and yet with such scholarly attention to the evidence the fortunes of the poor six or seven centuries ago that it should attract the attention of a far wider audience.' New York Herald Tribune
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"A picture of the peasant's physical and mental environment which is well balanced, full of significant detail and free from disquieting exaggerations of light and shade. A work of much learning, well arranged and clearly written." The Spectator
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IT is customary to set out on any survey of medieval peasant life by attempting a description of the manor and its occupants, and this we shall have to do, however briefly, although throughout our emphasis will be more on actualities than on legal distinctions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
manorial population, manorial servants, manorial officers, assize rolls, manorial organisation, manor court, many manors, court rolls, bride ales, other manors, manorial accounts, itinerant justices, manorial economy, manorial system, best beast, manorial courts, next court, own strips Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Selden Soc, Hales Rolls, Ramsey Cart, Walter of Henley, Sussex Rec, Durham Halmote Rolls, Priory Reg, Abbots Langley, Wakefield Rolls, Piers Plowman, Eynsham Cart, Bishop of Chichester, Vale Royal, Battle Customals, Sussex Arch, Yorks Inquis, Assize Rolls, East Anglia, Luttrell Psalter, Abbot of Ramsey, Bishop of Winchester, Black Death, Kettering Compotus, Wynslowe Rolls, Charter Rolls New!
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IT is customary to set out on any survey of medieval peasant life by attempting a description of the manor and its occupants, and this we shall have to do, however briefly, although throughout our emphasis will be more on actualities than on legal distinctions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
manorial population, manorial servants, manorial officers, assize rolls, manorial organisation, manor court, many manors, court rolls, bride ales, other manors, manorial accounts, itinerant justices, manorial economy, manorial system, best beast, manorial courts, next court, own strips Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Selden Soc, Hales Rolls, Ramsey Cart, Walter of Henley, Sussex Rec, Durham Halmote Rolls, Priory Reg, Abbots Langley, Wakefield Rolls, Piers Plowman, Eynsham Cart, Bishop of Chichester, Vale Royal, Battle Customals, Sussex Arch, Yorks Inquis, Assize Rolls, East Anglia, Luttrell Psalter, Abbot of Ramsey, Bishop of Winchester, Black Death, Kettering Compotus, Wynslowe Rolls, Charter Rolls New!
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- The Medieval Village (Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science) by G. G. Coulton on page 43, page 281, and Back Matter
- Instructions for Parish Priests by John Myrc on page 30, page 201, and Back Matter
- The Growth Of The Manor by Paul Vinogradoff on page 42, page 49, and page 282
- English Field Systems by Howard L. Gray on page 43, page 72, and Back Matter
- The Paston Letters by James Gairdner on page 200, and page 237
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- The Ties that Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England by Barbara A. Hanawalt in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Life in a Medieval Village by Frances Gies in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Power and Privilege: A Theory of Social Stratification by Gerhard E. Lenski on page 206, page 245, and Back Matter
- Horses, Oxen and Technological Innovation: The Use of Draught Animals in English Farming from 1066-1500 (Past and Present Publications) by John Langdon on page 71, page 239, and Back Matter
- A Woman in History: Eileen Power, 1889-1940 by Maxine Berg on page 134, and Back Matter
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