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Life & Work In Medieval Europe
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Life & Work In Medieval Europe
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First Published in 2005, This is an attempt to construct an ordered synthesis of the evolution of labour in Christian Europe during the Middle Ages. Its aim is not only to analyse the variations in the legal status of persons and of lands, but above all to set the working classes in the historical framework in which they lived, to trace the reciprocal action of political and social institutions, of exchange, of industrial and agricultural production, of the colonisation of the soil, of the distribution of landed and movable wealth, upon those economic transformations which brought about the appearance of new forms of labour and which gave to the masses a place in society which they had never hitherto occupied.
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INDEX
ABBEYS, organisation of, 120–30
Abo, 275
Achaia, 267
Ackerman, 311
“Acquisitions,” 81
Acre, 168
Adalbero, Bishop, quoted, 119, 146
Admiralty courts, 174, 288–89
Adrian IV, Pope, 155
Adrianople, 55, 266
Adriatic, Venetian conquest of, 175
Adscriptitii, 43, 44
Africa, trade with, 111, 289; Italian banking agency in, 168; European exploration of, 289
Agreements, 247–48 (and see Charters)
Agriculture:
Bulgarian prosperity in, 59
Byzantine care of, 32–35, 116
Churches’ services to, 36, 65, 68–69, 157
communes, agricultural, in Byzantine Empire, 41
co-operative farming, 323
corn-growing. See that heading
day labourers. See subheading, Wage-earners
decay of, under barbarians, 26; 14th cent, decline, 316
development of (10th to 13th cents.), 231 seq., 236–38
Eastern Europe, preponderance in, 270
encouragement of, under Carolingian and Anglo-Saxon monarchies, 64
England pre-eminent in, 176 “extensive” methods, 10, 284, 255, 274
feudal system, as affecting, 140–41, 152, 159
German, 12
Gewaanne, 10
industrial crops. See that heading
industry an annexe of, 102
intensive methods introduced, 234
iron ploughshare introduced, 234, 274
live stock, small, preponderance of, 141, 232–33
manures, 234, 274
métayage. See that heading
methods of, Carolingian, 74, 75, 79
model farms, 153, 157, 232; Scandinavian, 274
ploughlands, division of, 79; cessation of, 240
Scandinavia, in, 273
servants in husbandry (servientes, valets), 257–58
Slav, 7
soldier cultivators, 41
State promotion of, 153
strips of field, 10, 79, 141
tenant-farming (7th to 10th cents.), 90; nature of, 255; success of, 259; (15th cent.), 322–23; development of, 335
towns’ concern with, 201
trade development stimulating, 177
triennial fallows, 10, 255, 274
wage-earners in, elimination of, in Byzantine Empire, 42; survivors in Gaul, 90; beginnings of, 252, 255; day labourers, 255–57, 276; earnings of (13th cent.), 259; classes of, 324
Ahrimanns, 88,...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Author’s Preface
- Book I: Labour in Christian Europe During the Early Middle Ages. The Invasions; The Work of Destruction and Attempts at Reconstruction, Fifth To Tenth Centuries
- Book II: The Restoration, Emancipation, Achievements and Apogee of Labour in Christian Europe from the Middle of the Tenth to the Middle of the Fourteenth Century
- Book III: The Close of the Middle Ages, Birth of Capitalism and a National Economy. The Century of Revolutions (1340-1453)
- General Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index