Peasants In The Middle Ages
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Author |
: Werner Rosener |
Publisher |
: Polity |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 1996-09-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0745618359 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780745618357 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Peasants in the Middle Ages by : Werner Rosener
This book sets out to redress the balance of history in favor of the peasants. Reminding us that peasants made up the vast majority of the population in medieval Europe, Rösener's research illustrates that their lives were just as complex and interesting as those of the nobility. Rösener first considers the social, economic and political foundations of peasant life, in particular how occupational and land divisions determined the relative freedom of the rural population. At the height of the Middle Ages, the peasant condition improved as the seigneurial system was gradually replaced by tenant farming and progress in agricultural technology increased productivity. Peasant colonists now left overcrowded villages to farm less fertile or barely populated terrains. Forms of village settlement diversified and relationships among the peasants developed into more complex communal networks. Changes were also apparent in the quality and variety of clothing and the design of farmhouses and farmyards. The author also sheds new light on successful peasants who owned land and began to form "peasant republics" independent of the nobility. As the peasant population swelled, however, economic and ecological concerns became of vital importance to a community which derived its living from the soil. This book is a lively refutation of those preconceptions which see peasant existence either as a rural idyll or a life of unmitigated oppression and poverty. Rösener's detailed study has unearthed a rich peasant culture which flourished alongside and was frequently in conflict with the medieval nobility. Peasants in the Middle Ages will be welcomed by historians of medieval Europe and by sociologists and anthropologists interested in the Middle Ages or comparative studies.
Author |
: Paul H. Freedman |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 496 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804733732 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804733731 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Images of the Medieval Peasant by : Paul H. Freedman
The medieval clergy, aristocracy, and commercial classes tended to regard peasants as objects of contempt and derision. In religious writings, satires, sermons, chronicles, and artistic representations peasants often appeared as dirty, foolish, dishonest, even as subhuman or bestial. Their lowliness was commonly regarded as a natural corollary of the drudgery of their agricultural toil. Yet, at the same time, the peasantry was not viewed as “other” in the manner of other condemned groups, such as Jews, lepers, Muslims, or the imagined “monstrous races” of the East. Several crucial characteristics of the peasantry rendered it less clearly alien from the elite perspective: peasants were not a minority, their work in the fields nourished all other social orders, and, most important, they were Christians. In other respects, peasants could be regarded as meritorious by virtue of their simple life, productive work, and unjust suffering at the hands of their exploitive social superiors. Their unrewarded sacrifice and piety were also sometimes thought to place them closest to God and more likely to win salvation. This book examines these conflicting images of peasants from the post-Carolingian period to the German Peasants’ War. It relates the representation of peasants to debates about how society should be organized (specifically, to how human equality at Creation led to subordination), how slavery and serfdom could be assailed or defended, and how peasants themselves structured and justified their demands. Though it was argued that peasants were legitimately subjugated by reason of nature or some primordial curse (such as that of Noah against his son Ham), there was also considerable unease about how the exploitation of those who were not completely alien—who were, after all, Christians—could be explained. Laments over peasant suffering as expressed in the literature might have a stylized quality, but this book shows how they were appropriated and shaped by peasants themselves, especially in the large-scale rebellions that characterized the late Middle Ages.
Author |
: Toni Mount |
Publisher |
: Pen and Sword History |
Total Pages |
: 198 |
Release |
: 2021-08-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526754424 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526754428 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis How to Survive in Medieval England by : Toni Mount
An in-depth guide to life in medieval England, including class, housing, spirituality, fashion, grooming, food, commerce, jobs, health, law, war, and more. Imagine you were transported back in time to Medieval England and had to start a new life there. Without mobile phones, ipads, internet, and social media networks, when transport means walking or, if you’re fortunate, horseback, how will you know where you are or what to do? Where will you live? What is there to eat? What shall you wear? How can you communicate when nobody speaks as you do and what about money? Who can you go to if you fall ill or are mugged in the street? However can you fit into and thrive in this strange environment full of odd people who seem so different from you? All these questions and many more are answered in this new guidebook for time-travelers: How to Survive in Medieval England. A handy self-help guide with tips and suggestions to make your visit to the Middle Ages much more fun, this lively and engaging book will help the reader deal with the new experiences they may encounter and the problems that might occur. Know the laws so you don’t get into trouble or show your ignorance in an embarrassing faux pas. Enjoy interviews with the celebrities of the day, from a businesswoman and a condemned felon, to a royal cook and King Richard III himself. Have a go at preparing medieval dishes and learn some new words to set the mood for your time-travelling adventure. Have an exciting visit but be sure to keep this book at hand. “Fun and creative. . . . If you want a handy guide to take on your journeys to the past or you just want a book to better understand the past, I highly suggest you read this book, “How to Survive in Medieval England” by Toni Mount.” —Adventures of a Tudor Nerd
Author |
: Judith Bennett |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 168 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015042004526 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, C. 1295-1344 by : Judith Bennett
This history of medieval village life is told through the experiences of Cecilia Penifader, a peasant woman who lived on one English manor in the early fourteenth century. This truly unique book offers a wealth of insight into medieval peasant society, bringing many of the characteristics of a time and a people to life. Short and readable, it is an ideal text for undergraduate teaching, suitable for courses in Western civilization, medieval history, women's history, and English history.
Author |
: Jim Whiting |
Publisher |
: Capstone |
Total Pages |
: 25 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429633352 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429633352 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Miserable Life of Medieval Peasants by : Jim Whiting
Disgusting food. Stinky houses. Scratchy clothes. Find out how medieval peasants coped with their miserable lives.
Author |
: Barbara A. Hanawalt |
Publisher |
: New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 1986 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0195045645 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780195045642 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ties that Bound by : Barbara A. Hanawalt
Barbara A. Hanawalt's richly detailed account offers an intimate view of everyday life in Medieval England that seems at once surprisingly familiar and yet at odds with what many experts have told us. She argues that the biological needs served by the family do not change and that the ways fourteenth- and fifteenth-century peasants coped with such problems as providing for the newborn and the aged, controlling premarital sex, and alleviating the harshness of their material environment in many ways correspond with our twentieth-century solutions. Using a remarkable array of sources, including over 3,000 coroners' inquests into accidental deaths, Hanawalt emphasizes the continuity of the nuclear family from the middle ages into the modern period by exploring the reasons that families served as the basic unit of society and the economy. Providing such fascinating details as a citation of an incantation against rats, evidence of the hierarchy of bread consumption, and descriptions of the games people played, her study illustrates the flexibility of the family and its capacity to adapt to radical changes in society. She notes that even the terrible population reduction that resulted from the Black Death did not substantially alter the basic nature of the family.
Author |
: Robert Hull |
Publisher |
: Smart Apple Media |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1599201720 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781599201726 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Peasant by : Robert Hull
Traces the life of a typical peasant in medieval times from birth to death, including childhood, marriage, work, holidays, and customs. Includes primary source quotes.
Author |
: Henry Stanley Bennett |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 1937-01-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521091055 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521091053 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Life on the English Manor by : Henry Stanley Bennett
An account of the daily and yearly round of the English peasant in the Middle Ages.
Author |
: Werner Rosener |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:987080210 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Peasants in the Middle Ages by : Werner Rosener
Author |
: Paul Freedman |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2004-01-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521548055 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521548052 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia by : Paul Freedman
This 1991 book is an examination of Catalonian peasants in the Middle Ages integrating archival evidence with medieval theories of society.