In 1961 Georges Duby wrote what is still the best overview of European medieval rural history to date. Originally published in French and first translated into English in 1968, Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West brings together local research on the countryside and its economic life and distills from it lessons that apply much more widely. With this edition, the University of Pennsylvania Press brings this modern classic back into print.
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"A masterpiece."—Speculum
"One of the most important, imaginative, solidly documented, well written books of medieval history that I have ever read. . . . It offers a unique combination of synthetic power and analytic perception, of bold judgment and Cartesian doubt, of hard economic facts and subtle psychological considerations."—Speculum
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Duby once again has presented a thorough presentation of economic history of a really tough period for historians. Written records of this time tend to be skewed to the nobility and the clergy while the peasant and the work in the fields is cloaked in darkness. Duby gives us a flashlight to see them, albeit one with a bit of Marxist tone to it. He traverses a wide array of references and resources from very diverse fields of study to support his work. I highly recommend it.
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One fact is outstanding: in the civilization of the ninth and tenth centuries the rural way of life was universal. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
domestic lordship, manorial inventories, servile manses, manorial administrators, manorial fields, demesne system, demesne fields, large roods, free manses, demesne economy, demesne arable, livestock lease, ploughing services, little roods, manorial documents, manorial units, monastic manors, one denier, servage dans, two harvesters, manorial rents, manorial economy, terre gaste, direct cultivation, sixty sous Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Domesday Book, Ile de France, Archives des Bouches-du-Rhône, Black Death, Deutsches Bauerntum, Our Lady, Low Countries, King Edward, Villeneuve St Georges, East Anglia, San Giulia of Brescia, Economic History Review, King Henry, Notre-Dame of Paris, Peter the Venerable, Philippe Gaumer, Wood of Lessines, Blessed Mary, English Economic History, Hospitallers of Provence, Saint Jacob, Saint Ouen, Select Documents, Thiri Hanar New!
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One fact is outstanding: in the civilization of the ninth and tenth centuries the rural way of life was universal. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
domestic lordship, manorial inventories, servile manses, manorial administrators, manorial fields, demesne system, demesne fields, large roods, free manses, demesne economy, demesne arable, livestock lease, ploughing services, little roods, manorial documents, manorial units, monastic manors, one denier, servage dans, two harvesters, manorial rents, manorial economy, terre gaste, direct cultivation, sixty sous Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Domesday Book, Ile de France, Archives des Bouches-du-Rhône, Black Death, Deutsches Bauerntum, Our Lady, Low Countries, King Edward, Villeneuve St Georges, East Anglia, San Giulia of Brescia, Economic History Review, King Henry, Notre-Dame of Paris, Peter the Venerable, Philippe Gaumer, Wood of Lessines, Blessed Mary, English Economic History, Hospitallers of Provence, Saint Jacob, Saint Ouen, Select Documents, Thiri Hanar New!
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- French Rural History: An Essay on Its Basic Characteristics by Marc Bloch in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Tavistock Abbey by H. P. Finberg on page 304, and Back Matter
- Domesday Book (Penguin Classic): A Complete Translation (Penguin Classics) by G. Martin on page 296
- The Medieval Village (Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science) by G. G. Coulton in Back Matter
- Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford History of England) by Sir Frank M. Stenton in Back Matter
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- Money and its Use in Medieval Europe by Peter Spufford on 4 pages
- French Roots in the Illinois Country: The Mississippi Frontier in Colonial Times by Carl J. Ekberg on 4 pages
- Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State by Alan Harding on page 52, page 217, and Back Matter
- The Worlds of Medieval Europe by Clifford R. Backman on page 133, page 173, and page 350
- The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia (Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies) by Paul Freedman on page 43, page 160, and Back Matter
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