10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VILLEINAGE»
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villeinage in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Landlords, Peasants and Politics in Medieval England
English serfdom and villeinage, Towards a reassessment JOHN HATCHER I
THERE CAN BE FEW HISTORICAL ISSUES WHICH COMMAND SO WIDE A
measure of agreement as the wholly odious and reprehensible character of
serfdom.1 ...
2
The English Peasantry and the Growth of Lordship
The lives of many peasant families were changed by being brought within the
sphere of this culture, and this final chapter outlines the principal agent of change
: the evolution and application of the legal doctrine of villeinage.1 Legal
historians ...
3
The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I
Absolute villeinage is the tenure of one who, be he free or be he serf, is bound to
do whatever is commanded him, and does not know in the evening what he must
do in the morning. Then there is a villeinage which is not so absolute ; as when ...
Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland, 2007
4
England in the Thirteenth Century
Already by the second quarter of the thirteenth century, mixed marriages and the
attraction of good land, even if it must be held by villein services, had confused
Glanvill's picture of villeinage. As a status, it increasingly eluded proof by suit of ...
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A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically ...
The lord cannot take his villein out os another's service, mahout first giving notice
of the villeinage* Br. Villeinage, pi. 13- ekes 50 E. 3. 21. 3. If a villein be made a
secular chaplain, yet his lord may seise him as his villein, and seise his goods, ...
6
The Danish Revolution, 1500-1800: An Ecohistorical ...
Precisely what lay behind twenty-five years of energetic but almost grotesquely
ineffectual villeinage legislation remains something of a riddle. During the many
years when the question was being discussed almost incessantly, villeinage
work ...
7
Legal Histories of the British Empire: Laws, Engagements and ...
By contrast, in A Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of
Tolerating Slavery (1769), Granville Sharp argued systematically against the
legal parity of villeinage and slavery. For Sharp, English law (which diminished
but ...
Shaunnagh Dorsett, John McLaren, 2014
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The Abbey and Bishopric of Ely
None the less, the plough-team data from the lands of Ely abbey in Domesday
Book may tell us something more about the total burden imposed by the lord
upon the villeinage and about the factors which influenced the distribution of
ploughs ...
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The Decline of Serfdom in Late Medieval England: From ...
Many studies have tended to lack precision about how serfdom should be
defined and about the exact chronology of its decline, and so here the approach
has been to define villeinage explicitly and unambiguously; to construct a careful
...
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DAVIS PROB SLAVERY REV 1770-1823 C
Lastly, the slavery extended to the issue.24 But it was a serious mistake, as
Samuel Estwick realized, for slaveholders to appeal to the precedent or analogy
of villeinage. Refining and improving upon the arguments of Davy and Glynn, ...
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VILLEINAGE»
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Magna Carta 800 years on - don't let rulers take liberties with history
He argued that “there should be no more villeins in England, and no serfdom or villeinage, but that all men should be free and of one condition.” While this revolt ... «Socialist Worker, Jun 15»
Ungovernable Colonists
... enforced as French villeinage. The American colonists regularly flouted laws purporting to regulate trade and manufacturing, and the Crown wisely looked the ... «National Review Online, Nov 14»
Column: Ipswich's anti-slavery roots ran deep
In this first code of laws established in Massachusetts, Article 91 states that “there shall never be any bond slavery, villeinage, or captivity among us unless it be ... «Wicked Local- Ipswich, Feb 13»
Shafqat Cheema: Pakistan's favourite villain
... of sudden terror when he turned his face towards me :O Reminded me of all his villeinage appearances in ” Hathi meray saathi”, “Ham to chalay Susraal” etc. «The Express Tribune, Aug 12»
CASTE AND CLASS
He notes that villeinage or serfdom means both a type of landholding and a ... is very possible, as Bracton often assures us, for a free man to hold in villeinage… «The Fortnightly Review, Jun 12»
Professor George Holmes
As an account of the process by which feudal lords' hold over their tenants was eroded and villeinage was brought to an end, the book retains its importance. «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 09»
