The decline of serfdom in late medieval England from bondage to freedom
Scholars from various disciplines have long debated why western Europe in general, and England in particular, led the transition from feudalism to capitalism. The decline of serfdom between c.1300 and c.1500 in England is centralto this "Transition Debate", because it transformed the lives...
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Boydell & Brewer
2014
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Part I: The Decline of Serfdom: Questions and Approaches
- The Decline of Serfdom and its Historical Significance
- The Chronology of Decline: Villein Tenures
- The Chronology of Decline: Servile Incidents
- The Causes of Decline
- Part II: Case Studies
- Reassessing the Decline of Serfdom: Methods and Sources
- Walsham-le-Willows
- Merton College, Oxford
- Aldham
- Tingewick and Upper Heyford
- The Abbot of Bury St Edmunds
- The Dukes of Norfolk
- Miscellaneous manors
- Part III: Conclusions
- The Chronology of the Decline of Serfdom
- From Bondage to Freedom: Towards a Reassessment