Peasant and Community in Medieval England, 1200-1500

The medieval peasant was not the solitary self-sufficient being that he perhaps appears to be, but rather he was 'integrated into complex, long-standing and broad social, cultural, political, economic and demographic systems which affected and were influenced by the life of the peasant'. This general overview of the medieval peasant and the community in which he lived focuses on the local (land and family) level as well as the wider world (markets, crown and church). In this study, Schofield …