[PDF] The English Peasant eBook

Author : Barbara A. Hanawalt
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,96 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195045642

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Barbara A. Hanawalt's richly detailed account offers an intimate view of everyday life in Medieval England that seems at once surprisingly familiar and yet at odds with what many experts have told us. She argues that the biological needs served by the family do not change and that the ways fourteenth- and fifteenth-century peasants coped with such problems as providing for the newborn and the aged, controlling premarital sex, and alleviating the harshness of their material environment in many ways correspond with our twentieth-century solutions. Using a remarkable array of sources, including over 3,000 coroners' inquests into accidental deaths, Hanawalt emphasizes the continuity of the nuclear family from the middle ages into the modern period by exploring the reasons that families served as the basic unit of society and the economy. Providing such fascinating details as a citation of an incantation against rats, evidence of the hierarchy of bread consumption, and descriptions of the games people played, her study illustrates the flexibility of the family and its capacity to adapt to radical changes in society. She notes that even the terrible population reduction that resulted from the Black Death did not substantially alter the basic nature of the family.

Author : Rosamond Faith
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,77 MB
Release : 1999-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0718502043

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This account of the changing relationship between lords and peasants in medieval England challenges many received ideas about the "origins of the manor", the status of the Anglo-Saxon peasantry, the 12th-century economy and the origins of villeinage. The author covers the period from the end of the Roman empire to the late-12th century, tracing in post-Conquest society the continuing influence of developments which originated in Anglo-Saxon England. Drawing on work in archaeology and landscape studies, as well as on documentary sources, the book describes a fundamental division within the peasantry: that between the very dependent tenants and agricultural workers on the "inland" of the estates of ministers, kinds and lords, and the more independent peasantry of the "warland". The study leads to the expression of views on many aspects of the development of society in the period.

Author : Alastair Dunn
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 17,14 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :

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A stunningly good book on a revolt which came within a few minutes of changing our history utterly --totally absorbing.

Author : Richard Heath
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,54 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781290637527

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Author : Richard Heath
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 13,38 MB
Release : 2017-12-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780265212387

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Excerpt from The English Peasant: Studies; Historical, Local, and Biographic My interest in the subject began with a study of the Reports of the Commission on the Employment of Children, Young Persons, and Women in Agriculture which I took up in order to gain information for some illustrated articles I was planning on the various types of cottages in the different English counties. These Reports soon convinced me that the subject was too serious to be treated in the pretty fashion I intended, and the result was the paper here reprinted and entitled T/ze (foliage Home: of England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.