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 contro

In recent years, work on the medieval English peasant has tended to stress the degree of interaction between the village and the world beyond its bounds. This b

Presents the latest research on the causes and consequences of British population change from the medieval period to the eve of the Industrial Revolution, in bo

This is the third collection of articles by Bruce Campbell to appear in the Variorum series. Late medieval England was an overwhelmingly rural society. Never si

This authoritative survey of Britain in the later Middle Ages comprises 28 chapters written by leading figures in the field. Covers social, economic, political,