Mainstream historiography has traditionally found the roots of peasant action, and much of the meaning of that action, in legal status difference between lords and peasants, and among peasants themselves. In the last several decades, this older class conflict model has lost some ground to an interpretation of status that still emphasizes difference but focuses on questions of gender, sexuality, and Â?alterity.Â? Other students of medieval rural society have shifted interest away from questions of status, and focused instead on peasant economic influence and self-determination. Such evolving models of peasantsÂ? economic and political agency have not only extended our understanding of the complexity of rural life, they have made the issue of villager identity as significant a research objective as the identity of members of the elite, merchants, city-dwellers, and saints. The goal of this study is to gain a more balanced view of medieval society by considering how peasants thought about themselves and their world as revealed in English manorial court rolls and other records of estate administration.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-230) and index
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- 305.5/63309420902
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- 22
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- O48 2009eb
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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 7
- Acknowledgments 9
- Peasant Culture and the Village Court Medieval Englands Invisible World 11
- Performance Ritual and Storytelling Drama with a Purpose 62
- Peasant Names and Peasant Women 102
- Latin in the Fields Farmers and Court Rolls 134
- Trespass Against Whom and Its Meanings 159
- The Loss of Memory and the Memory of Loss Naming the Landscape in the Late Medieval Village 188
- Conclusion 211
- Bibliography 217
- Court Rolls 217
- Account Rolls and Related Fiscal Records 219
- Terriers and Partial Listings of Holdings in Sixteenth- century Ellington 220
- Grants of Land in Upwood and Ellington 220
- Miscellaneous 221
- Index 241
