HIST 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jacquerie, Dithmarschen, Demesne
16 Jan 2018
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Most people in the middle ages were peasants, but we rarely hear their point of view. Most peasants after 1000 lived on manors inter the rule of a lord, and were (to some degree) unfree. A wide spectrum of peasants existed in the middle ages, as well as a wide spectrum of forms of peasant resistance to oppression. In the middle ages, some 90% of the population of europe were peasants. Peasant: a farmer holding their own land, able to pass that land on to others, but usually a tenant rather than an owner. Usually owe rent, which can be money, produce, labor service, and usually legally tied to the land and its owner in a way that limits mobility and freedom. Peasant and poor not necessarily the same thing. Land: concentration of landholdings into manors (manorial system) Resource/labour exploitation: greater control of labor, higher rents, dues and fees. Direct judicial control (seigneurie banale: bad customs (mal usos)
