Social Relations and Ideas: Essays in Honour of R. H. Hilton Book

Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction Edward Miller;
1. The origins of the manor in England with a postscript T. H. Aston;
2. The extent and profitability of Demesne agriculture in England in the later eleventh century Sally P. J. Harvey;
3. Feudalism and its decline: a semantic exercise M. M. Postan;
4. The matron and the mis-married woman: perceptions of marriage in northern France circa 1100 Georges Duby;
5. Literature and social terminology: the Vavasour in England P. R. Cross;
6. The struggles between the Abbots of Halesowen and their tenants in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Zvi Razi;
7. Poverty in Piers Plowman Geoffrey Shepherd;
8. English diet in the later Middle Ages Christopher Dyer;
9. Economic change in later medieval England: an archaeological review G. G. Astill;
10. Serfdom in later medieval and early modern Germany Heide Wunder;
11. Time, space and use in Early Russia R. E. F. Smith;
12. Plough and pen: agricultural writers in the seventeenth century Joan Thirsk; Bibliography of R. H. Hilton's works to January 1982 Jean Birrell; Index.