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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 the influence of the seasons and the state of contemporary knowledge on the work of the fields; the place of 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.
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Life on the English Manor, Henry Stanley Bennett
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- Année de publication
- 1987
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- Titre
- Life on the English Manor
- Sous-titre
- A Study of Peasant Conditions 1150-1400
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Henry Stanley Bennett
- Éditeur
- Sutton Pub Ltd
- Publié
- 1987
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN10
- 0862993229
- ISBN13
- 9780862993221
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Sciences sociales, Thème historique, Sociologie, Littérature britannique, Angleterre, Moyen Âge, Conditions Sociales
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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 the influence of the seasons and the state of contemporary knowledge on the work of the fields; the place of 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.