The Cambridge Economic History of Europe from the Decline of the Roman Empire: Volume 1, Agrarian Life of the Middle AgesSir John Harold Clapham, M. M. Postan, Eileen Power This is a completely reset edition. The material in Chapters I, IV, V and VI and in sections 4, 5 and 8 of Chapter VII has been reproduced without any change. Chapters II, III and sections 1, 3 of Chapter VII have been brought up to date. All the other chapters and sections of Chapter VII have either been re-written or replaced by wholly new versions by different authors. |
Contents
CHAPTER II | 92 |
CHAPTER III | 125 |
Agricultural conditions in the temperate zone | 136 |
Agricultural work and implements | 142 |
The plants cultivated | 159 |
CHAPTER V | 205 |
The struggle to preserve the small landowner in | 215 |
The great landowners and their dependants in the late | 222 |
A Reclamations B Land hunger C | 556 |
A Patterns of settlement | 571 |
A Magnates and gentry in the thirteenth | 592 |
A Idiosyncrasies of peasant husbandry | 600 |
The Scandinavian states their geography | 633 |
Village forms | 640 |
CHAPTER VIII | 660 |
demographic evolution A | 677 |
CHAPTER VI | 235 |
CHAPTER VII | 291 |
A Distribu | 305 |
S2 Italy | 340 |
A The revival B Reclamation | 393 |
S3 Spain | 432 |
Agricultural and pastoral pursuits | 438 |
Conclusions | 447 |
Landownership | 487 |
Burdens borne by the rural population | 496 |
and fishing | 522 |
A PreMongol | 530 |
S7 England | 548 |
disorder and destruction | 694 |
The political and social background | 700 |
individuals and classes troubles in | 725 |
development and preparation | 739 |
Editors Note | 743 |
Chapter II revised by J R Morris | 755 |
Chapter III by Charles Parain | 761 |
Chapter V by Georg Ostrogorsky | 774 |
Chapter VI by Mme E Carpentier | 780 |
Chapter VII 1 by François Louis Ganshof and Adriaan | 790 |
Chapter VIII by Léopold Genicot | 834 |
Index | 847 |
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Common terms and phrases
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