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Author Freedman, Paul, 1949- author.

Title The origins of peasant servitude in medieval Catalonia / Paul Freedman
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1991]
©1991

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 263 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Cambridge Iberian and Latin American studies
Cambridge Iberian and Latin American studies.
Contents Machine derived contents note: Preface -- List of maps -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: medieval serfdom and Catalonia -- 2. Enduring characteristics of rural Catalonia -- 3. The free peasants of the ninth to eleventh centuries -- 4. Changes in the status of peasants: late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries -- 5. Catalan servitude in the thirteenth century -- 6. Effects of the Black Death -- 7. Peasant agitation and civil war, 1388-1486 -- Conclusion: origins of Catalan servitude -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary This 1991 book describes the history of peasants in Catalonia, the wealthiest and politically dominant part of the medieval Kingdom of Aragon, between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. It focuses on the period from 1000 to 1300, when free peasants who had held property under favourable frontier conditions were progressively subjugated by their lords. Between 1462 and 1486 Catalan peasants mounted the most successful peasants' war of the Middle Ages, and achieved the formal abolition of servitude. Professor Freedman seeks to explain both the process by which servitude was strengthened over the centuries, and its eventual weakening before a direct moral and military challenge. He addresses both the causes of enserfment and the limitations on its effectiveness. The book integrates archival evidence with the theories of society elaborated by medieval jurists. Comparisons are drawn between Catalonia and other regions, and its experience is situated within a spectrum of different social and economic conditions
Analysis Peasants History
Catalonia (Spain) History
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-253) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Serfdom -- Spain -- Catalonia -- History
Peasants -- Spain -- Catalonia -- History
Peasant uprisings -- Spain -- Catalonia -- History
Peasant uprisings
Peasants
Rural conditions
Serfdom
Lijfeigenen.
Opstanden.
Revoltes paysannes -- Espagne -- Catalogne (Espagne) -- Histoire.
Paysannerie -- Espagne -- Catalogne (Espagne) -- Moyen age.
Servage -- Espagne -- Catalogne (Espagne) -- Moyen age.
Feodalite -- Espagne -- Moyen age.
Propriete fonciere -- Espagne -- Catalogne (Espagne) -- Moyen age.
Catalonia (Spain) -- Rural conditions
Catalonia (Spain) -- History.
Spain
Spain -- Catalonia
Catalogne (Espagne) -- Conditions rurales -- Moyen age.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511583636
051158363X
9780521548052
0521548055