This ambitious survey offers a guide to the different peasant societies and economies in Europe from the later Middle Ages through to industrialization. Eleven regional chapters investigate key themes including patterns of lordship and dependence; standards of living; and the role of the peasantry in politics. Throughout the text emphasisises the diversities of peasant society across the whole of Europe - from England to the Ottoman lands, and from Scandinavia and Russia to Iberia.
- ISBN10 058210131X
- ISBN13 9780582101319
- Publish Date 8 April 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 October 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pearson Education Limited
- Format Paperback
- Pages 432
- Language English