Peasants Making History - Living in an English Region 1200-1540

Peasants Making History examines a peasant community in the English west midlands in the middle ages to understand how peasants lived, interacted, and made changes in their society in ways that have long been disregarded in scholarship.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Peasants and landscapes


• 3: Peasant society: landholding and status


• 4: Peasants changing society


• 5: Family and household


• 6: Peasants and their crops


• 7: Peasant farming: livestock and pasture


• 8: Peasants and towns


• 9: Peasants and industry


• 10: Peasant outlook, values, perceptions, and attitudes


• Conclusion

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Christopher Dyer is Emeritus Professor of History at the Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester.

Zusammenfassung

Peasants Making History examines a peasant community in the English west midlands in the middle ages to understand how peasants lived, interacted, and made changes in their society in ways that have long been disregarded in scholarship.

Zusatztext

Dyer's study is not perhaps a book for the nonspecialist to read cover-to-cover, but it provides a wealth of detail on peasant life in England in the later middle ages arranged by topic.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Christopher Dyer, Christopher (Emeritus Professor of History Dyer
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9780198847212
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884721-2
• Seiten: 396
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Warwickshire, West Midlands, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Historical Geography, British & Irish history, c 1000 CE to c 1500, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, c 1500 to c 1600, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Historical Geography, Early 16th century c 1500 to c 1550