Land, Liberties, and Lordship in a Late Medieval Countryside: Agrarian Structures and Change in the Duchy of Wroclaw

by Richard C. Hoffmann

Overview

Richard C. Hoffman's monumental study of rural life in medieval eastern Europe focuses on one region, the Duchy of Wroclaw, from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries. The duchy is in many ways a microcosm of medieval European society, and thus Hoffman's analysis addresses issues central to a broader understanding of a vanished society. His analysis of the records of the Duchy of Wroclaw challenges the western stereotypes of east central Europe that have been imposed on its medieval past by modern nationalisms.

Honorable Mention, Wallace K. Ferguson Prize of the Canadian Historical Association.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812280906
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	01/29/1990
Series:	Anniversary Collection
Pages:	582
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.67(d)
Lexile:	1660L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

"The product of more than two decades of painstaking research, this impressive and important study recreates the patterns of landholding and social relaitons between lords and peasants in the Silesian duchy of Wroclaw (Breslau) over a three-and-one-half century period. . . . The authoritative and standard work."

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"The product of more than two decades of painstaking research, this impressive and important study recreates the patterns of landholding and social relaitons between lords and peasants in the Silesian duchy of Wroclaw (Breslau) over a three-and-one-half century period...;The authoritative and standard work."—Choice

From the Publisher

On the recognition and management of this hearing impairment for clinicians. Hoffman's (history, York U., Toronto) 20 years of research has yielded this reconstruction and analysis of 350 years (from the 12th to the 16th centuries) in the complex life of a past community. He studies the duchy--in many ways a microcosm of medieval European society--from economic, agrarian, and historical perspectives, following the development of freedom and its loss. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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