Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions 1150-1400
by H. S. Bennett
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This book gives a picture of the daily and yearly round of the English peasant in the Middle Ages. H. S. Bennett explains the feudal system which linked the poor man to the soil and to the service of his lord and the church in a pattern of customary dues and rights, payments, labours and small privileges. The author gives lively details of the pattern of medieval country life: the influence of the seasons and the state of contemporary knowledge on the work of the fields; the place of show more religion in everyday life; the workings of feudal justice; popular attitudes to the social structure; the business of getting a living. Since all the inhabitants of England outside the few large towns were essentially countrymen, this is an introduction to life in medieval England as a whole. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions 1150-1400
- Original publication date
- 1937
- Important places
- England, UK (as England)
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 305.563309420902 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity People by social and economic levels Lower, alienated, excluded classes Peasants
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- HC254.3 .B4 — Social sciences Economic history and conditions Economic history and conditions By region or country
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper
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- 3
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- 15
