Villainage in England (1892): Essays in English Mediaeval History

by Paul Vinogradoff

Overview

Vinogradoff argues that the Norman-era villain was the direct descendent of the Anglo-Saxon freeman, so the typical Anglo-Saxon settlement was a free community rather than a manor. An impressive work of original scholarship and synthesis, it “shed a wholly new light on the social and legal aspects of the institution of villainage” (William Holdsworth, The Historians of English Law 86). xii, 464 pp.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781584774778
Publisher:	Lawbook Exchange, Limited, The
Publication date:	09/10/2019
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.19(d)

About the Author

Justly famous as a comparative lawyer and historian of roman law, Paul Vinogradoff [1854-1925] also wrote on public international law and English legal history. Along with Villainage in England, his other major works are Roman Law in Medieval Europe (1909), a collection of essays on the decay and revival of roman law in France, England and Germany, Outlines in Historical Jurisprudence (1920), a complex description and analytical perspective of the growth of jurisprudence from tribal to modern law and On the History of International Law and International Organization: Collected Papers of Sir Paul Vinogradoff (2009), which collects his most important contributions to international law and historical jurisprudence.

Table of Contents

First Essay. The Peasantry of the Feudal Age

I. The Legal Aspect of Villainage, General Conceptions

II. Rights and Disabilities of the Villain

III. Ancient Demesne

IV. Legal Aspect of Villainage. Conclusions

V. The Servile Peasantry of Manorial Records

VI. Free Peasantry

VII. The Peasantry of the Feudal Age. Conclusions

Second Essay. The Manor and the Village Community

I. The Open Field System and the Holdings

II. Rights of Common

III. Rural Work and Rents

IV. The Lord, his Servants and Free Tenants

V. The Manorial Courts

VI. The Manor and the Village Community. Conclusions

Appendix

Index

Editorial Reviews

“Perhaps the most important book written on the peasantry of the feudal age and the village community in England; it can only be compared for value with F.W. Maitland’s Domesday Book and Beyond.”

Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th. ed.) 28:100

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