Peasants Clergy And Noblemen
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Peasants Clergy And Noblemen
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Author : Anna Adamska
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-06-30
Peasants Clergy And Noblemen written by Anna Adamska and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-30 with categories.
Much has been published over the last decades on the uses of literacy by the clergy, nobility, and town dwellers of the Middle Ages. By comparison, very little attention has been devoted to the use of writing by the inhabitants of the medieval countryside. This book aims to remedy this situation. In many different regions of medieval Europe, the vicinity of even the smallest of towns and market places suggested the use of the written word. Even peasant communities and individual peasants came into contact with writing, and on occasion wrote texts themselves - or had them written for them. The professionals and semi-professionals of the kinds of writing we associate mainly with urban literacy proved to be real ambassadors of pragmatic literacy in the European countryside. The Church was present there as well, with clergy engaged in pastoral care. And the landowners, many of whom belonged to the lower nobility, also played a role in the process by which the countryside slowly but steadily acquired literate mentalities. These fundamental developments are seen against the background of the persistence of those oral and non-verbal forms of communication that continued to be vital in peasant societies. This book offers a selection of scholarly work made available for the first time in English; in addition, articles have been commissioned to augment what has been available for some time in other languages.
The Nobility And The Making Of The Hussite Revolution
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Author : John M. Klassen
language : en
Publisher: Eastern European Monographs
Release Date : 1978
The Nobility And The Making Of The Hussite Revolution written by John M. Klassen and has been published by Eastern European Monographs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Science categories.
Agriculture In The Middle Ages
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Author : Martin Bakers
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Stanford Books
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Agriculture In The Middle Ages written by Martin Bakers and has been published by Cambridge Stanford Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with History categories.
In the Middle Ages agriculture underwent many changes. The nobles and the clergy were considered the most important members of the feudal society. However, they were never the majority: in the Middle Ages, almost all people were peasants. Not all farmers had the same category and social status. Many of them were free men. Among these, some were small landowners who lived on their own land, while others, the settlers, leased the feudal lord a small plot of land.
Josephism At Its Boundaries
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Author : Samuel T. Myovich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Josephism At Its Boundaries written by Samuel T. Myovich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with categories.
The Outbreak Of The Great French Revolution Related By A Peasant Of Lorraine
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Author : Émile Erckmann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
The Outbreak Of The Great French Revolution Related By A Peasant Of Lorraine written by Émile Erckmann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with France categories.
Images Of The Medieval Peasant
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Author : Paul H. Freedman
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1999
Images Of The Medieval Peasant written by Paul H. Freedman and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
The medieval clergy, aristocracy, and commercial classes tended to regard peasants as objects of contempt and derision. In religious writings, satires, sermons, chronicles, and artistic representations peasants often appeared as dirty, foolish, dishonest, even as subhuman or bestial. Their lowliness was commonly regarded as a natural corollary of the drudgery of their agricultural toil. Yet, at the same time, the peasantry was not viewed as “other” in the manner of other condemned groups, such as Jews, lepers, Muslims, or the imagined “monstrous races” of the East. Several crucial characteristics of the peasantry rendered it less clearly alien from the elite perspective: peasants were not a minority, their work in the fields nourished all other social orders, and, most important, they were Christians. In other respects, peasants could be regarded as meritorious by virtue of their simple life, productive work, and unjust suffering at the hands of their exploitive social superiors. Their unrewarded sacrifice and piety were also sometimes thought to place them closest to God and more likely to win salvation. This book examines these conflicting images of peasants from the post-Carolingian period to the German Peasants’ War. It relates the representation of peasants to debates about how society should be organized (specifically, to how human equality at Creation led to subordination), how slavery and serfdom could be assailed or defended, and how peasants themselves structured and justified their demands. Though it was argued that peasants were legitimately subjugated by reason of nature or some primordial curse (such as that of Noah against his son Ham), there was also considerable unease about how the exploitation of those who were not completely alien—who were, after all, Christians—could be explained. Laments over peasant suffering as expressed in the literature might have a stylized quality, but this book shows how they were appropriated and shaped by peasants themselves, especially in the large-scale rebellions that characterized the late Middle Ages.
The Outbreak Of The Great French Revolution Related By A Peasant Of Lorraine
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Author : Erckmann-Chatrian
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
The Outbreak Of The Great French Revolution Related By A Peasant Of Lorraine written by Erckmann-Chatrian and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with France categories.
The Black Death And The End Of The Medieval Society
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Author : Hendrik van Nievelt
language : en
Publisher: Origo
Release Date : 2021-11-17
The Black Death And The End Of The Medieval Society written by Hendrik van Nievelt and has been published by Origo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-17 with History categories.
Medieval feudal society was built on a sociopolitical and economic system guided by feudalism and the transcendental views of Christianity. Both of these institutions were put to the test during the Black Death epidemic, the deadliest disaster humankind has suffered, given the population of the time. Without a doubt, this event revolutionized medieval society in every way and accelerated a process of change that had been brewing for centuries.But the impact of the plague went well beyond loss of life. It fatally wounded the spiritual, social and economic foundations of the medieval world, to such an extent that one could shift the traditional timeline and mark 1347, the year the plague began, as the true end of the Middle Ages. We can read many statistics on the economic and demographic impact of the Black Death in Europe, but nothing reflects the ordeal better than the painting, “The Triumph of Death,” by Flemish artist Pieter Brueghel the Elder. We cannot help but shudder at the helplessness and despair of these people trying in vain to escape their fate. Peasants, nobles, priests, kings, and bishops, all made equal by death, while armies of skeletons chase after them, proclaiming the end of times. In the face of an ordered, hierarchal medieval society, this painting shows us chaos, disorder and equality in death. In this book, I will attempt to summarize, first, how the Church and feudalism were the bases of medieval society, then in the following chapters describe the principal economic, social, and spiritual effects of the plague and how Europe was changed forever.
The Coming Of The French Revolution
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Author : Georges Lefebvre
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-12-31
The Coming Of The French Revolution written by Georges Lefebvre and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-31 with History categories.
The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this great turning point in the formation of the modern world. First published in 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, and suppressed by the Vichy government, this classic work explains what happened in France in 1789, the first year of the French Revolution. Georges Lefebvre wrote history "from below"—a Marxist approach. Here, he places the peasantry at the center of his analysis, emphasizing the class struggles in France and the significant role they played in the coming of the revolution. Eloquently translated by the historian R. R. Palmer and featuring an introduction by Timothy Tackett that provides a concise intellectual biography of Lefebvre and a critical appraisal of the book, this Princeton Classics edition continues to offer fresh insights into democracy, dictatorship, and insurrection.
After The Black Death Second Edition
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Author : George Huppert
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1998-05-22
After The Black Death Second Edition written by George Huppert and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-05-22 with History categories.
Praise for the first edition: "To give a sense of immediacy and vividness to the long period in such a short space is a major achievement." —History "Huppert's book is a little masterpiece every teacher should welcome." —Renaissance Quarterly A work of genuine social history, After the Black Death leads the reader into the real villages and cities of European society. For this second edition, George Huppert has added a new chapter on the incessant warfare of the age and thoroughly updated the bibliographical essay.