Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions 1150–1400 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series)

Bennett, H. S.

ISBN 10: 0521091055 / ISBN 13: 9780521091053

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1937

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• Title: Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions 1150?1400 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1937
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521091055
• ISBN 13: 9780521091053
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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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 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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Mr. Bennett gives a picture of the daily and yearly round of the English peasant in the Middle Ages. he explains the feudal system which linked the poor man to the soil and to the service of the lord and the church in a pattern of customary dues and rights, payments, labours and small privileges. He also gives lively detail 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 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, Mr. Bennett's book is really an introduction to live in Medieval England as a whole.