Peasant and Community in Medieval England, 1200-1500.(Book Review)

Phillipp R. Schofield. Peasant and Community in Medieval England 1200-1500. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. vi, 279. $21.95 paper. ISBN 0-333-64711-4.

The study of the medieval English countryside has undergone major historiographical transformations over the last thirty years as new approaches to a variety of questions have been inspired by a growing appreciation of the commercialization of the English countryside, theories of economic development, demographic studies, women's and gender studies and cultural studies, as well as continued work by legal and institutional historians. ...

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