Author : Léopold Genicot
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Book Synopsis Rural Communities in the Medieval West by : Léopold Genicot
Download or read book Rural Communities in the Medieval West written by Léopold Genicot and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is also notable for Genicot's efforts to acquaint readers with the new resources available to historians of the medieval countryside - from fossilized pollens to databanks of medieval documents and terminology - and to introduce modern, non-English technical terminology. Genicot includes a concise bibliographical summary of the various positions, discussions and current knowledge in the field. Rural Communities in the Medieval West is an authoritative synthesis of the scholarly literature from continental Europe's foremost historian of the economy and society of the medieval countryside. Also includes information on aristocracy, cattle rearing, church, commons, community, crisis, custom, demography, economy, family, franchises, landed property, law, lord, money, nobility, parish prices, reclamations, rent, seigneurie, serfdom, settlement, town, vicar, villa, etc.