 | Peasant Economic Development within the English Manorial System Subjects: Farm tenancy -- Economic aspects -- England -- History; Manors -- Economic aspects -- England -- History; Peasantry -- England -- History; 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. |
