Peasant and Community in Medieval England, 1200-1500 [Paperback]

In recent years, work on the medieval English peasant has tended to stress the degree of interaction between the village and the world beyond its bounds. This book not only provides an overview of this research, but also develops this approach. Phillipp R. Schofield describes the traditional world of the peasant - with attention given to such issues as relations between lord and tenant, and the nature of the peasant family - and places the peasantry of the late middle ages within the wider political, legal, ecclesiastical and commercial world of the medieval community.Introduction: Peasant and Community PART I: LAND Land: Tenure, Landholding and Rent Determinants of Peasant Landholding The Transfer of Peasant Land PART II: FAMILY Family and Household Peasant Marriage and Household Formation: Issues and Influences PART III: WORLDS BEYOND: MARKET, CROWN AND CHURCH Peasants and the Market Peasants and Politics Peasants and Religion Conclusion Notes Further Reading Index

'This is an excellent and welcome textbook for everyone with an interest or specialism in the field of medieval peasants generally, but for undergraduate students in particular, who will find this very useful indeed (and I will certainly recommend it to them).' - Dr Miriam M?ller, University of Birmingham

PHILLIPP R. SCHOFIELD has held research posts in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and is now Lecturer in Medieval History in the Department of History and Welsh History at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author of a number of articles on the medieval English peasantry.