The Agrarian Life of the Middle Ages

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GENERAL EDITORS: M. M. POSTAN, Professor of Economic History in the University of Cambridge, and H. J. HABAKKUK, Chichele Professor of Economic History in the University of Oxford. Edited by M. M. POSTAN Professor of Economic History in the University of Cambridge Second Edition This is a completely reset edition. The material in Chapters I, IV, V and VI and in sections 4, 5 and 8 of Chapter VII has been reproduced without any change. Chapters II, III and sections I, 3 of Chapter VII have been brought up to date. All the other chapters and sections of Chapter VII have been either re-written or replaced by wholly new versions by different authors. CONTENTS Preface RICHARD KOEBNER. The Settlement and Colonization of Europe COURTENAY EDWARD STEVENS. Agriculture and Rural Life in the Later Roman Empire CHARLES PARAIN. The Evolution of Agricultural Technique ALFONS DOPSCH. Agrarian Institutions of the Germanic Kingdoms from the Fifth to the Ninth Century GEORG OSTROGORSKY. Agrarian Conditions in the Byzantine Empire in the Middle Ages MARC BLOCH. The Rise of Dependent Cultivation and Seignorial Institutions Medieval Agrarian Society in its Prime: 1. France, The Low Countries, and Western Germany, by FRANÇOIS LOUIS GANSHOF and ADRIAAN VERHULST; 2. Italy, by PHILIP JONES; 3. Spain, by ROBERT S. SMITH; 4. The lands east of the Elbe and German colonization eastwards, by HERMANN AUBIN; 5. Poland, Lithuania and Hungary, by JAN RUTKOWSKI; 6. Russia, by ROBERT E. F. SMITH; 7. England, by M. M. POSTAN; 8. Scandinavia, by STURE BOLIN LEOPOLD GENICOT. Crisis: From the Middle Ages to Modern Times First edition (edited by J. H. Clapham and Eileen Power): Reprinted 1941 Reprinted (U.S.A.) 1942 Second edition 1944 1966 Printed in Great Britain by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd. London and Colchester Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: A41-3509