Slavery and Serfdom in the Middle Ages: Selected Essays

Marc Bloch was one of the founders of social history, if by that is meant the history of social organization and relations to contrast to the more conventional histories of political elites and diplomatic relations. His great monographs in medieval history are well known, but his original articles have been difficult to obtain.

The present collection of essays explores the dimensions of servitude in medieval Europe. The typical political relations of that era were those of feudalism—the hie...