Peasants in the Middle Ages Book

Translator's Introduction.

Part I: Medieval Peasantry: Origins and Development:.

Introduction.

1. The Foundations of the Medieval Peasantry.

2. The Transformations in the High Middle Ages.

Part II: Patterns of Peasant Settlement and Dwelling, 1000-1400:.

3. Nature and Environment, Clearance and Settlement.

4. Changes in the Village.

5. Peasant House and Holding.

Part III: Peasant Clothing, Food and Work, 1000-1400:.

6. Clothing and Food.

7. Agricultural Implements, Land Utilization and Agrarian Development.

8. Peasant Labour and Economy.

Part IV: Social Patterns, 1000-1400:.

9. Neighbourhood and Village Community.

10. Peasant Family and Kinship.

11. The Social Stratification of the Peasant Population.

Part V: Manorial Relations and Law, 1000-1400:.

12. Manorial Dependence.

13. Peasant Freedom and Independent Peasant Communities.

14. Peasant Revolts and Resistance, 1000-1400.

Part VI: The Upheavals of the Late Middle Ages:.

15. The Peasants and the Agrarian Crisis.

Notes.

Select Bibliography.

Glossary.

Index.