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- catalog abstract "Challenging a hundred-year tradition that English peasants were serfs at the disposal of their lord, J.A. Raftis argues that tenants were in considerable control of the manorial regime and were able to take advantage of what most scholars have considered to be exploitive and negative aspects of the medieval agricultural economy. Offering a revisionist theory that shifts the focus from labour services required by the lord to capital required by the customary tenant, Raftis reveals that "peasant economic development" and "manorial economy" are not mutually exclusive terms. Using account rolls, charters, court rolls, and lay subsidy rolls, he demonstrates that lords subordinated their power to tax and to extract labour services to a policy of capital maintenance. This breakthrough allows him to develop a more rational explanation for the growth of markets and wealth in a countryside not exclusively dependent on the economy of lords. Peasant Economic Development within the English Manorial System is a ground-breaking analysis that redefines the social and economic history of rural medieval England and changes the direction of medieval scholarship.".
- catalog contributor b9124590.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "Challenging a hundred-year tradition that English peasants were serfs at the disposal of their lord, J.A. Raftis argues that tenants were in considerable control of the manorial regime and were able to take advantage of what most scholars have considered to be exploitive and negative aspects of the medieval agricultural economy. Offering a revisionist theory that shifts the focus from labour services required by the lord to capital required by the customary tenant, Raftis reveals that "peasant economic development" and "manorial economy" are not mutually exclusive terms. Using account rolls, charters, court rolls, and lay subsidy rolls, he demonstrates that lords subordinated their power to tax and to extract labour services to a policy of capital maintenance. This breakthrough allows him to develop a more rational explanation for the growth of markets and wealth in a countryside not exclusively dependent on the economy of lords.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Peasant Economic Development within the English Manorial System is a ground-breaking analysis that redefines the social and economic history of rural medieval England and changes the direction of medieval scholarship.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. An Evolution within the Manor. 1. Capital and the Customary Tenant. 2. The Disposition of Capital within Customary Tenant Families. 3. Allocation of Customary Labour -- pt. 2. Transformation within the Manor. 4. Capital Conquers. 5. Family Priorities. 6. Mobility and the Regional Economy. 7. Conclusion -- App. I. Witnesses to Land Charters -- App. II. Preliminary Observations towards a Calculus of Opera Obligations -- App. III. The Structure of Opera Allocations -- App. IV. The Tenurial Spread at Abbots Ripton, Upwood, and Wistow.".
- catalog extent "viii, 243 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0773514031 :".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press,".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog subject "330.942/02 20".
- catalog subject "Farm tenancy Economic aspects England History.".
- catalog subject "HC254.3 .R33 1997".
- catalog subject "Manors Economic aspects England History.".
- catalog subject "Peasants England History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. An Evolution within the Manor. 1. Capital and the Customary Tenant. 2. The Disposition of Capital within Customary Tenant Families. 3. Allocation of Customary Labour -- pt. 2. Transformation within the Manor. 4. Capital Conquers. 5. Family Priorities. 6. Mobility and the Regional Economy. 7. Conclusion -- App. I. Witnesses to Land Charters -- App. II. Preliminary Observations towards a Calculus of Opera Obligations -- App. III. The Structure of Opera Allocations -- App. IV. The Tenurial Spread at Abbots Ripton, Upwood, and Wistow.".
- catalog title "Peasant economic development within the English manorial system / J.A. Raftis.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".